Sherina Feliciano‐Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 10808248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherina Feliciano‐Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherina |
| FAMILY NAME | Feliciano‐Santos |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOS S F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology University of South Carolina Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Linguistic Anthropology
In this brief essay, we outline the emergence of the North American discipline of linguistic anthropology. Taking a chronological approach, we trace its disciplinary roots in the European fields of comparative and historical linguistics, its development in the 20th century of semiotic approaches to studying language as socioculturally contextualized practice, and the burgeoning in the 21st century of an engaged anthropolitical linguistics. The di…
How do you speak Taíno? Indigenous Activism and Linguistic Practices in Puerto Rico
This paper analyzes emergent speech practices among Taíno activists in Puerto Rico. While historical narratives of the Caribbean and conventional knowledge have largely presumed that the Taíno, an indigenous population of the Caribbean, have been extinct, several persons in Puerto Rico are actively identifying with and mobilizing around this ethnic category. One of the Taíno-identified challenges in such mobilization is that the Taíno language is…
How do you speak Taíno? Indigenous Activism and Linguistic Practices in Puerto Rico
This paper analyzes emergent speech practices among Taíno activists in Puerto Rico. While historical narratives of the Caribbean and conventional knowledge have largely presumed that the Taíno, an indigenous population of the Caribbean, have been extinct, several persons in Puerto Rico are actively identifying with and mobilizing around this ethnic category. One of the Taíno-identified challenges in such mobilization is that the Taíno language is…
How do you speak Taíno? Indigenous Activism and Linguistic Practices in Puerto Rico
This paper analyzes emergent speech practices among Taíno activists in Puerto Rico. While historical narratives of the Caribbean and conventional knowledge have largely presumed that the Taíno, an indigenous population of the Caribbean, have been extinct, several persons in Puerto Rico are actively identifying with and mobilizing around this ethnic category. One of the Taíno-identified challenges in such mobilization is that the Taíno language is…
Linguistic Anthropology
In this brief essay, we outline the emergence of the North American discipline of linguistic anthropology. Taking a chronological approach, we trace its disciplinary roots in the European fields of comparative and historical linguistics, its development in the 20th century of semiotic approaches to studying language as socioculturally contextualized practice, and the burgeoning in the 21st century of an engaged anthropolitical linguistics. The di…
Anthropological linguistics (1 works) · Discipline (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works) · Generative grammar (1 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (1 works) · Linguistic anthropology (1 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (1 works) · Semiotics (1 works) · Situated (1 works)