{"title":"His Master’s Voice, Her Jokes: Voice and Gender Politics in the Performance of Rakugo","authors":"Esra-Gökçe Şahin","doi":"10.1111/jola.12351","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12351","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the role of voice and voicing as a gendered construct in the performance of rakugo in Japan. Rakugo is a traditional genre of comedic storytelling, performed by a single actor. The genre sets a nostalgic tone for the simplicity of life in preindustrial Tokyo, through portrayals of foolishness and mockery of various human situations. A great majority of the rakugo performers are men. Despite the fact that rakugo is characterized with a technique of cross gender vocalization, rakugo performers state that the female voice is considered unsuitable for vocalizing the protagonists in rakugo stories. On the basis of ethnographic data gained from participant observation, and my own apprenticeship under a prominent rakugo master, I investigate the role of female voice as a “speaker” in the Bakhtinian “double-voiced discourse” of rakugo. The female voice is considered unsuitable to perform rakugo well, because women are denied the agency to reciprocate the androcentric ideology that views the genre as exclusively male authored.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48457936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area. Nathan Badenoch and Nishaant Choksi, eds. Boston, MA: Brill, 2021. xiv + 329 pp.","authors":"Anvita Abbi","doi":"10.1111/jola.12350","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48231636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Movement and Meaning in Janana Communities","authors":"Ila Nagar","doi":"10.1111/jola.12342","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12342","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Janana</i> is a word used to describe male presenting individuals who desire or have sex with men but who may also hold a heteronormatively masculine position within their communities. This article presents an interdisciplinary look at the janana body and explores movement as a way jananas form meaning alongside linguistic markers within their communities. I show that the rewards and risks associated with movement in the janana community indicate a relationship between movement and language in the social lives of jananas, which is tied to the politics of their presence in the communities they inhabit. While scholars have studied aspects of movement within various communities, work on the simultaneous rewards and risks associated with movement within communities like that of jananas is underrepresented. This article shows that jananas use gestures and body movement to carry meanings that challenge restrictions imposed on their bodies by culture while also surviving and living under such restrictions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49087981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Enregisterment of Esh in Global Beatboxing Culture","authors":"Jaspal Naveel Singh, Cameron Martin Campbell","doi":"10.1111/jola.12347","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12347","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Esh <i>is an emblematic word and sound in global beatboxing culture. It may have developed from the vocal mimicry of a sound of a snare drum or it may have derived from multicultural youth slang in France. What is clear is that esh is now widely recognized and used as a lexicalized sound to humorously index cultural identity alignments, for example taking a stance of affirmative evaluation, greeting and identifying other beatboxers. We show in this article how beatboxers perform, narrativize and mediatize the interactive functions and cultural indexicalities of esh. This enregisterment, we argue, is schizophonic, i.e. esh is indexically anchored in a mimetic shapeshifting between humans and machines</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42920303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication in Persons with Acquired Speech Impairment: The Role of Family as Language Brokers","authors":"Gema Rubio-Carbonero","doi":"10.1111/jola.12340","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12340","url":null,"abstract":"<p>More than 170 million people in the world have some kind of speech impairment. The lack of professional interpreters in this domain causes their families to need to learn new communicative strategies to interact with them and assist them as interpreters. The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of these non-professional interpreters for adults with a speech impairment caused by an acquired brain injury. Data come from 13 qualitative interviews and participant observations of 7 persons with acquired brain injury and their families during 18 months. The paper shows the communicative and multimodal strategies these ad-hoc interpreters use to understand the person with impaired speech and the strategies such persons use to make themselves understandable. It also shows how meaning is negotiated and jointly constructed, the power dynamics that emerge from interpreting practices and the impact this has on the speech-impaired persons’ agency.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.12340","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46985358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeling to Learn: Ideologies of Race, Aurality, and Manouche Music Pedagogy in France","authors":"Siv B. Lie","doi":"10.1111/jola.12334","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12334","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores how music professionals promote interdiscursive oppositions between musical aurality and musical literacy to unsettle the terms of their racialization. For many French Manouches (a subgroup of Romanies/“Gypsies”), music is a source of pride, profit, and public recognition. Manouche musicians often valorize their own sensorially centered pedagogical approaches in distinction to music literacy as espoused by French schools and conservatories. In doing so, they link notions of expressivity, naturalness, and ethical behavior to their Manouche identity in contrast to White French society. They construct parallel contrasts between Black and White musicalities in the jazz world to convey their value as racialized musicians, pointing to transnational formations of race and White supremacy. Because French color-blind policy constrains speech about race and racism, advocacy for an aurally centered approach to music pedagogy becomes a way for speakers to denounce the discrimination Manouches face as racialized subjects. For these musicians, self-exoticization is a multifaceted tactic to develop a market niche, to prove themselves as good neoliberal subjects, and to disrupt the racial logics that render such alterity both an asset and a burden. Their discourse remains powerful even if, in practice, some make use of the very music-theoretical frameworks they critique.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43260861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge. Charles L. Briggs. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2021. x + 336 pp.","authors":"Steven P. Black","doi":"10.1111/jola.12345","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45985925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clackamas Chinook Performance Art: Verse Form Interpretations. Victoria Howard. Transcription by Melville Jacobs. Edited by Catharine Mason. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xxxvii + 224pp.","authors":"Anthony K. Webster","doi":"10.1111/jola.12333","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12333","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47327336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Living Fossils”: The Politics of Language Preservation in Huangshan, China","authors":"Britta Ingebretson","doi":"10.1111/jola.12332","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12332","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the politics of language maintenance in Huangshan, China, home of the Huizhou topolects. I show how, under the guise of celebrating local heritage, local language documentation efforts encourage language demise through <i>preemptive eulogization,</i> the act of portraying a language or culture as being more moribund than it is. This has the effect of hastening language loss by portraying it as inevitable and already well underway. I argue that intentional or unintentional acts of preemptive eulogization may be quite prevalent in minority language efforts worldwide and may help explain the lack of success of language protection projects.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42726319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ratchet Black Lives Matter: Megan Thee Stallion, Intra-Racial Violence, and the Elusion of Grief","authors":"Nikki Lane","doi":"10.1111/jola.12323","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12323","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In July 2020, Megan Thee Stallion was shot. The vitriol directed towards her represented the ways certain kinds of Black women’s bodies do not effectively garner collective forms of grief, or the public expression of empathy toward someone who experiences tragedy or suffers harm. The lack of empathy shown by many toward Megan falls in line with the ways that Black women, girls, and femmes are frequently disregarded—their bodies marked as excessive, loud, disposable, and above all, deserving of whatever violence is exacted upon them. In this essay, I argue that Megan Thee Stallion was not, to some, an appropriate target for grief--she was ungrievable--because, as a ratchet Black woman who embodies a purposeful lack of regard for Black middle-class norms concerning gender and sexuality, she is seen as less deserving of sympathy by those holding racist ideas about Black women.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jola.12323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45596914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}