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On the Disassembly Line: Linguistic Anthropology in 2014
Author(s) -
Graber Kathryn E.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1111/aman.12232
Subject(s) - linguistic anthropology , anthropology , humanities , sociology , reflexivity , linguistics , art , philosophy
Recent developments in linguistic anthropology have been animated by twin processes of dis‐ and reassembly. We increasingly view languages and the people who speak them as fragmented and partible, and processes of migration, circulation, and translocation demand more of our attention. The subfield has also been engaging in some reflexive dis‐ and reassembly by reflecting on the position of language and linguistics in anthropology and on our relationship to other disciplines and subdisciplines. In this essay, I review the year 2014 in linguistic anthropology by examining these trends across four main clusters of research: (1) fractured multilingualism, (2) peregrinations of persons and texts, (3) distributed and recombinant selves in interaction, and (4) publics and participation.