Full Description
This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wound? What is the relation between physical and linguistic violence? How do racial invectives, misogynous language, homophobic slurs, among other forms of hate speech, affect the body and make us vulnerable to conditions of injurability that language brings about? While investigating the limits that violence poses for everyday speech action, understanding, representation, and our shared frameworks of intelligibility, this collective volume theoretically bridges knowledge from canons in linguistic pragmatics, continental philosophy and linguistic/semiotic anthropology and the dialogic perspective of subjects who are located in the peripheries of South America and Europe. The scholarship gathered here intends to offer a perspective on the violence of words that is attentive to practices and sensibilities that do not always fit into hegemonic ideologies of self and language.
Contents
1. Investigating violence in language: An introduction (by Silva, Daniel N.); 2. Part I. The language of violence: Conflict, policing, frontiers; 3. Chapter 1. The invention of violence (by Taddei, Renzo); 4. Chapter 2. Voice and silence in the suburbs of Sao Paulo: State, community and the meanings of violence (by Galdeano, Ana Paula); 5. Chapter 3. From the side of the Road to the Borders of the Page: Mapping the legibility of people and words at the margins (by Goldstein, Ruth); 6. Part II. The violence of language: Hate speech, speech act, injuries; 7. Chapter 4. The circulation of violence in discourse (by Silva, Daniel N.); 8. Chapter 5. Racist speech as a linguistic discriminatory practice in Brazil: Between the speech act's reference and effects (by Santos Allen, Karla Cristina dos); 9. Chapter 6. Free speech, hate speech, and hate beards: Language ideologies of Dutch populism (by Leezenberg, Michiel); 10. Part III. The intersections of violence, bodies and languages: Epistemology, narrative, corporealities; 11. Chapter 7. On languages, bodies and epistemic violence (by Plaza Pinto, Joana); 12. Chapter 8. Queering violence and narrative: Voices from a marginalized community (by Lewis, Elizabeth Sara); 13. Chapter 9. Discursive constructions of deviance in the narratives of a prison inmate (by Biar, Liana)
