Hospitable Linguistics (Paperback)

Nicholas G. Faraclas

ISBN 10: 1788929691 / ISBN 13: 9781788929691

Published by Multilingual Matters, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. Challenging the boundaries of linguistics as a field, and transgressing the limitations of genre in writing about language, this book explores the possibilities of what the authors call a hospitable linguistics. It offers a critical discussion of how linguistics endeavors to domesticate, subdue and integrate both people and languages into existing academic structures and theories, and how as a discipline academic linguistics has barely begun to move beyond its colonial, patriarchal and conservative foundations. In this book, leading figures in their fields reflect on their own and others practices and experiences in three key areas: the agency and power of refugees and migrants; Indigenous peoples (in)hospitable responses to strangers; and hospitable language as expressed through art, music and artefacts. As a whole, the book represents a crucial intervention in attempts to fashion a new, more integrative, responsible and respectful linguistics that makes way for the ideas of people who are often the object of study. Challenging the boundaries of linguistics as a field, and transgressing the limitations of genre in writing about language, this book explores the possibilities of what the authors call a hospitable linguistics. It represents a crucial intervention in attempts to fashion a more integrative, responsible and respectful linguistics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Seller Inventory # 9781788929691

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hospitable Linguistics (Paperback)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788929691
• ISBN 13: 9781788929691
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Challenging the boundaries of linguistics as a field, and transgressing the limitations of genre in writing about language, this book explores the possibilities of what the authors call a ‘hospitable linguistics’. It offers a critical discussion of how linguistics endeavors to domesticate, subdue and integrate both people and languages into existing academic structures and theories, and how as a discipline academic linguistics has barely begun to move beyond its colonial, patriarchal and conservative foundations. In this book, leading figures in their fields reflect on their own and others’ practices and experiences in three key areas: the agency and power of refugees and migrants; Indigenous people’s (in)hospitable responses to strangers; and hospitable language as expressed through art, music and artefacts. As a whole, the book represents a crucial intervention in attempts to fashion a new, more integrative, responsible and respectful linguistics that makes way for the ideas of people who are often the object of study. 

About the Authors

Dr Nicholas Faraclas is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.  Having received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, he has taught courses and published many books and numerous articles in the areas of theoretical, descriptive, socio-, and applied linguistics.  Over the past four decades, he has been conducting research on postcolonial linguistics and creole languages as well as promoting community based literacy activities in Africa, the South Pacific, Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean. 

Anne Storch is Full Professor in Afrikanistik / African Linguistics at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research focuses on linguistic manipulation and marginalized languages, linguistic typology, colonial linguistics and anthropological linguistics.

Viveka Velupillai is an Honorary Professor in the Department of English at the University of Giessen, Germany and Visiting Professor at the Language Sciences Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland. Her research focuses on linguistic typology, language contact and historical linguistics, Creoles and marginalized languages.