The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology is an extensive and authoritative collection of topical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives in the broad field of linguistic anthropology. Now in its second edition, it has been fully updated to address current and pressing global challenges and inspire action. Carefully edited by Bonvillain and García-Sánchez, this volume advances readers' understanding of how language intersects with power structures, social identities of gender, race, sexual orientation, cognitive processes, and neurodiversity. Across 28 chapters, contributors outline the foundations and key issues of linguistic anthropology, particularly language ideologies, while exploring practical approaches to research. Drawing from their research experience in universities across North America and abroad, they particularly emphasize ways in which theories and methodologies can contribute to social action and social justice movements on environmental and transitional justice, immigration and multilingualism, and Indigenous language revitalization or reawakening. This handbook is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of applied and linguistic anthropology.

Nancy Bonvillain is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics as well as Director of the Tutoring and Writing Center at Bard College at Simon's Rock. The editor of the first edition of The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (Routledge, 2014), her research focuses on the Mohawk language and other Native American languages. A prolific author, she has published textbooks on cultural anthropology, language and culture, gender studies, and Native Nations, as well as several ethnographies of Native American First Nations. Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez is Professor of Education and of Anthropology at the University of California, USA. Her research offers a critical dialogue between educational ethnography, linguistic anthropology, and migration studies, with a focus on the schooling of immigrant children and youth. She is a past fellow of the National Academy of Education (USA) and the author of several journal and book publications, including Language and Cultural Practices in Communities and School: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups (Routledge, 2019).

Introduction. Part I. Language Practices and the Basis of Social Meaning 1. Language Ideologies: Formulations and Transformations 2. Semantic Categorization and Cognition 3. Gesture 4. The Social Imaginary, Unspoken in Verbal Art 5. Analogies and Ideologies of Translingual Thought 6. The Power of Language Socialization 7. Critical Discourse Studies: Principles, Directions, Reflections 8. Digital Linguistic Anthropology Part II. Language and the Communication of Identities 9. Discursive Practices, Linguistic Repertoire, and Racial Identities 10. Language, Race, Everything, Everywhere 11. Language and Gender: Constructions, Structures and Intersections 12. Language, Heteroglossia, and Intersectionality: A Queer and Trans Critique 13. Neurodiversity in Linguistic Anthropological Contexts 14. New and Emergent Languages Part III. Language in the Context of Local/Global Productions 15. The Emergence of Creoles and Language Change 16. Beyond Language Documentation and Revitalization: Positing Post-Language, Posthuman, and Indigenous Praxes of Possibility 17. The Politics of Language Endangerment 18. Language and (In)Exclusion: Youth's Communicative Practices in Contexts of Marginalization 19. Legal Discourse 20. Multilingualism and Transnationalism: Perspectives from Refugee Communities 21. Signed Languages and Global Ideologies of Practice Part IV. Language for Social Justice and Social Action 22. Linguistic Anthropology and Social Justice: Producing Knowledge for Action 23. Eight Ways to Challenge Climate Heating: Climate Discourse and Mobilizing Knowledge for Social Change 24. Linguistic Anthropology in a Time of Pan/Epidemics 25. Linguistic Anthropology Facing the Anthropocene 26. The Language of Transitional Justice 27. Political Discourse 28. Endangered and Emergent Languages and Foodways.