{"title":"The relationship people: Mediating love and marriage in twenty-first century Japan By Erika R. Alpert. London and Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2022. xvii +159 pp. $39.99 (pbk). ISBN: 9781498594226","authors":"Edwin K. Everhart","doi":"10.1111/jola.12421","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12421","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"156-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140303012","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":"Working the difference: Science, spirit, and the spread of motivational interviewing. E. Summerson Carr, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2023. pp. xiii + 277","authors":"Kathryn R. Berringer","doi":"10.1111/jola.12423","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12423","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"159-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140196969","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":"Methods of desire: Language, morality, and affect in neoliberal Indonesia, Aurora Donzelli. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2019","authors":"Janet McIntosh","doi":"10.1111/jola.12422","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"162-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140196852","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":"Genres of listening: An ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires. Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas (Ed.), Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. pp. xii+233","authors":"Jeremy A. Rud","doi":"10.1111/jola.12419","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"150-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150889","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":"Domestic workers talk. Language use and social practices in a multilingual workplace By Kellie Gonçalves and Anne Ambler Schluter (Ed.), Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 2024 xv + 146 pp.","authors":"Rachelle Vessey","doi":"10.1111/jola.12420","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12420","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"153-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140116926","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":"Texting, teens, and parental challenges in practices of family socialization","authors":"Andreas Candefors Stæhr","doi":"10.1111/jola.12416","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12416","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how parent–teen texting enables family members to construct family relations and negotiate behavioral and communicative norms while being apart. The analyses of family texting focus on how teenagers and parents deal with issues of teenage independence and how this involves situated negotiations of teenagers being constructed as either <i>able</i> or <i>unable</i> to live up to family norms and the family's communication culture. Based on the analyses, I argue that digitally mediated interactions complement co-present contexts of family socialization and influence the relation between power- and solidarity-oriented aspects of everyday socialization practices, for instance, by blurring the boundaries between parental <i>care</i> and <i>control</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"107-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140106671","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":"Metapolitical seduction: Women's language and white nationalism","authors":"Catherine Tebaldi","doi":"10.1111/jola.12418","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12418","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the enregisterment of white nationalist women's language as metapolitical seduction, in anti-feminist conversion videos designed both to seduce men and to restore them to their proper place—above women. First, the paper analyzes the metapragmatics of submissive femininity, then the characters this far right fairy tale invents, and finally how they come to represent a metapolitical order which aligns gender, nation, tradition, and language. Women's language contributes to the white nationalist metapolitical project of resurrecting white masculinity and re-gendering the world, also revealing mechanisms by which white supremacy is made to appear not only normal, but desirable.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"84-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140098431","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":"What to make of a Sultan's tear: Phaticity, praise poetry, and social infrastructures in the Sultanate of Oman","authors":"Bradford Garvey","doi":"10.1111/jola.12417","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12417","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The distributive political economy of contemporary Arab Oman yields a status-differentiated social infrastructure composed of elites who distribute and non-elites who, in many ways, rely on those distributions. The construction of communicative links within social infrastructures via the performance of sung poetry depends on the phaticity of the link being activated. For Omani poets, different linguistic performance genres telescope the vast social distance between elites who listen and non-elites who sing in different ways and with different results. Omani poets from the rural north of the country conduct cross-class social contact—conceptually “vertical” social infrastructural movement—by way of two contrasting genres of Arabic praise poetry: a one-off request or statement, the solo <i>qasida</i>, and a recognitive, addressive choral form that reciprocally establishes and evaluates such vertical relationships, the '<i>āzī</i>. I argue that the metapragmatic distinctions that Omani poets draw between these two genres reveal a subtle phatic ideology that allows certain modes of communicative contact to index deeper, cross-class social ties within grand public performances, while simultaneously reinforcing tacit norms of elite avoidance of non-elites in everyday social intercourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"66-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.12417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140025354","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":"Justice suspended: Rethinking institutions, regimentation, and channels from a human rights law perspective","authors":"Jessica R. Greenberg","doi":"10.1111/jola.12415","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12415","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyzes institutions as sites for political and social change by looking beyond regimentation and fixedness as the central discursive features of institutionalization. Drawing on research at the European Court of Human Rights—one of the world's most extensive human rights courts—I analyze how human rights actors redeploy normative institutional logics through creative approaches to institutional categories. I argue that lawyers and advocates working within the Court and Convention system naturalize and fix boundaries of law and politics <i>and</i> use that distinction to activate an excess of potential meanings and intertextual connections in legal judgments. This involves using institutional affordances to keep cases open and structure collaborative waiting. These strategies allow people to mutually inhabit open-ended relationships to texts in intentional ways. In so doing, lawyers and activists defer resolving legal judgments—until new coalitions take political power, there are generational shifts in attitudes or shifts in geopolitical power arrangements that render state actors subject to diplomatic pressure. Analyzing how people improvise, learn, and teach others to manage institutional channels and excess opens up the black box of institutionality as a site for social transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"45-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139927434","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":"How to speak to the masses, part II: Hồ Chí Minh as a moral and linguistic exemplar and the dynamics of register formation in 20th century Vietnam","authors":"Jack Sidnell","doi":"10.1111/jola.12413","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.12413","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hồ Chí Minh's extended essay <i>Fixing the Way We Work</i>, written in 1947 after he and other high-ranking members of the recently formed DRV (Democratic Republic of Vietnam; <i>Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa</i>), had been forced to retreat from Hanoi to the uplands of Thái Nguyên province, elaborates on organizational and practical problems within the party and obstacles to mass mobilization. The final chapter describes a way of speaking HCM refers to as <i>ba hoa</i> and which he sees as a “speech sickness” afflicting many low and middle ranking cadres who are in direct contact with the masses. In the first part of this essay, I argued that the largely proscriptive and negatively formulated instructions articulated in this context cohere by virtue of a common focus on problems of action. Specifically, <i>ba hoa</i> names a stereotyped speech register in which the connection between speaking and doing comes undone. In what follows, the second part of the essay, I describe the other, positively formulated half of the larger project of register formation: the elevation of HCM's own mode of expression (<i>phong cách diễn đạt</i>) to the status of an exemplary model that all Vietnamese people are expected to emulate. This involved extensive metasemiotic elaboration and (re)framing which was accomplished, in large part, through the writings of contemporaries and later interpreters. A consideration of this literature along with an analysis of the continued spectral presence of HCM in contemporary Vietnam allows for a specification of the semiotics of exemplarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"23-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.12413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138561114","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}