Abstract Language Games (Hardcover)

Hardcover. Abstract nouns - power, privilege, race, gender, and identity - can embody varied positions that polarize the discourse around attempts to theorize them, particularly in contexts where disputes arise over activism and sociocultural change. This book therefore materializes out of one neurodivergent researchers endeavor to examine the five selected nouns through topical narratives provided by six culturally and linguistically diverse participants who also identify as neurodivergent or divergent thinkers. Neurodivergent narratives from individuals of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds can inform how we understand intention in abstract English language. As neurodiversity awareness grows across multiple scientific disciplines, attention to neurodivergence has remained largely absent in relevant domains of linguistic research. Using a neurodivergent lens to examine abstract language, particularly whe Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…