Hilary Parsons Dick
Biographic Data
| ID | 118307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Parsons Dick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary Parsons |
| FAMILY NAME | Dick |
| SIGNATURE | DICK H P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arcadia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Discourse Analysis
This entry discusses discourse analysis (hereafter “DA”) in linguistic anthropology and the related field of sociolinguistics, where “discourse analysis” refers to methods used to analyze the content, sociopolitical significance, and interactional effects of semiotic practices for the purpose of systematically showing how these practices shape social processes. Referring to DA in these fields as sociocultural studies of discourse, the entry revie…
Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young PeopleDeborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio, eds. (New York: NYU Press, 2019)
Speak American
Build the Wall: Post-Truth on the US-Mexico Border
From South to North and back again: Making and blurring boundaries in conversations across borders
Multisited ethnography and language in the study of migration
This chapter focuses on the intersection of multisited ethnography and studies of language and migration, especially as it has developed in anthropology and sociolinguistics – the fields that have spearheaded language-based studies of globalization. It addresses some of the ongoing debates that inform the current practice of multisited ethnography, addressing in particular the place of the nation-state in a so-called globalized world. The chapter…
Language and Social Justice Committee Storify
This post is a summary of the Storify
Una Gabacha Sinvergüenza(A Shameless White-Trash Woman): Moral Mobility and Interdiscursivity in a Mexican Migrant Community
This article explores a process that typifies social worlds during late-capitalist globalization: people's lives regularly involve the negotiation of conflicting visions of ethico-moral life. Such negotiations require people to reckon with complex social differentiation, wherein the boundaries between "good" and "bad" are overlapping, contradictory, and ever shifting. In the face of such complexity, we need ways to understand the assemblages that…
Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs - By Norma Mendoza-Denton
Language and Migration to the United States
The ethnographic study of migration into the United States has shown that the culturally specific ways people are made into distinct and hierarchically ranked kinds are a key force organizing human movement. Among migrants, such people-making is transnational, unfolding across nation-state borders and involving encounters with regimes of social difference produced at multiple scales of interaction. This article explores the influential role langu…
Making Immigrants Illegal in Small-Town USA
Using two discourse-analytical lenses, one genealogical and the other textual, this article traces the interdiscursive history through which the social categories "Mexican immigrant" and "illegal alien" have become conflated in the United States, effectively criminalizing Mexican immigrants as dangerous Others. Today, this conflation is a prime source for the racialization of not only Mexican immigrants, but other Latin American immigrants as wel…
Racializing Discourses: A special issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
No option but to go: Poetic rationalization and the discursive production of Mexican migrant identity
Imagined lives and modernist chronotopes in Mexican nonmigrant discourse
The globalization literature spotlights the way that the experiences of transnational actors are refracted through lives inhabitable elsewhere. In this article, I examine this process in spoken discourse about U.S.-bound migration produced by nonmigrants in the Mexican city of Uriangato. This talk is organized around a "modernist chronotope" that pits "progress" against "tradition," producing images of space-time grafted onto images of persons, o…
Haciendo de Tripas el Corazón/Plucking Up Courage: Migration, Family Internal Conflict, and Gender in Veronica’s Story
This article considers how migrants conceptualize and negotiate the emotional conflicts that accompany decisions to migrate. Such conflicts are a regular feature of migrants’ experience, informing how they understand the act of and reasons for migrating. The article focuses on the life of one migrant: a woman I call “Veronica,” whom I met during research on migration between Uriangato, Guanajuato, Mexico and Chester County, Pennsylvania. I argue …
"What to do with "I Don't Know: Elicitation in Ethnographic & Survey Interviews
Imagined lives and modernist chronotopes in Mexican nonmigrant discourse
The globalization literature spotlights the way that the experiences of transnational actors are refracted through lives inhabitable elsewhere. In this article, I examine this process in spoken discourse about U.S.-bound migration produced by nonmigrants in the Mexican city of Uriangato. This talk is organized around a "modernist chronotope" that pits "progress" against "tradition," producing images of space-time grafted onto images of persons, o…
Racializing Discourses: A special issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Making Immigrants Illegal in Small-Town USA
Using two discourse-analytical lenses, one genealogical and the other textual, this article traces the interdiscursive history through which the social categories "Mexican immigrant" and "illegal alien" have become conflated in the United States, effectively criminalizing Mexican immigrants as dangerous Others. Today, this conflation is a prime source for the racialization of not only Mexican immigrants, but other Latin American immigrants as wel…
Language and Migration to the United States
The ethnographic study of migration into the United States has shown that the culturally specific ways people are made into distinct and hierarchically ranked kinds are a key force organizing human movement. Among migrants, such people-making is transnational, unfolding across nation-state borders and involving encounters with regimes of social difference produced at multiple scales of interaction. This article explores the influential role langu…
Una Gabacha Sinvergüenza(A Shameless White-Trash Woman): Moral Mobility and Interdiscursivity in a Mexican Migrant Community
This article explores a process that typifies social worlds during late-capitalist globalization: people's lives regularly involve the negotiation of conflicting visions of ethico-moral life. Such negotiations require people to reckon with complex social differentiation, wherein the boundaries between "good" and "bad" are overlapping, contradictory, and ever shifting. In the face of such complexity, we need ways to understand the assemblages that…
Build the Wall: Post-Truth on the US-Mexico Border
"What to do with "I Don't Know: Elicitation in Ethnographic & Survey Interviews
From South to North and back again: Making and blurring boundaries in conversations across borders
No option but to go: Poetic rationalization and the discursive production of Mexican migrant identity
Haciendo de Tripas el Corazón/Plucking Up Courage: Migration, Family Internal Conflict, and Gender in Veronica’s Story
This article considers how migrants conceptualize and negotiate the emotional conflicts that accompany decisions to migrate. Such conflicts are a regular feature of migrants’ experience, informing how they understand the act of and reasons for migrating. The article focuses on the life of one migrant: a woman I call “Veronica,” whom I met during research on migration between Uriangato, Guanajuato, Mexico and Chester County, Pennsylvania. I argue …
"What to do with "I Don't Know: Elicitation in Ethnographic & Survey Interviews
No option but to go: Poetic rationalization and the discursive production of Mexican migrant identity
Imagined lives and modernist chronotopes in Mexican nonmigrant discourse
The globalization literature spotlights the way that the experiences of transnational actors are refracted through lives inhabitable elsewhere. In this article, I examine this process in spoken discourse about U.S.-bound migration produced by nonmigrants in the Mexican city of Uriangato. This talk is organized around a "modernist chronotope" that pits "progress" against "tradition," producing images of space-time grafted onto images of persons, o…
Language and Migration to the United States
The ethnographic study of migration into the United States has shown that the culturally specific ways people are made into distinct and hierarchically ranked kinds are a key force organizing human movement. Among migrants, such people-making is transnational, unfolding across nation-state borders and involving encounters with regimes of social difference produced at multiple scales of interaction. This article explores the influential role langu…
Making Immigrants Illegal in Small-Town USA
Using two discourse-analytical lenses, one genealogical and the other textual, this article traces the interdiscursive history through which the social categories "Mexican immigrant" and "illegal alien" have become conflated in the United States, effectively criminalizing Mexican immigrants as dangerous Others. Today, this conflation is a prime source for the racialization of not only Mexican immigrants, but other Latin American immigrants as wel…
Racializing Discourses: A special issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs - By Norma Mendoza-Denton
Multisited ethnography and language in the study of migration
This chapter focuses on the intersection of multisited ethnography and studies of language and migration, especially as it has developed in anthropology and sociolinguistics – the fields that have spearheaded language-based studies of globalization. It addresses some of the ongoing debates that inform the current practice of multisited ethnography, addressing in particular the place of the nation-state in a so-called globalized world. The chapter…
Language and Social Justice Committee Storify
This post is a summary of the Storify
Una Gabacha Sinvergüenza(A Shameless White-Trash Woman): Moral Mobility and Interdiscursivity in a Mexican Migrant Community
This article explores a process that typifies social worlds during late-capitalist globalization: people's lives regularly involve the negotiation of conflicting visions of ethico-moral life. Such negotiations require people to reckon with complex social differentiation, wherein the boundaries between "good" and "bad" are overlapping, contradictory, and ever shifting. In the face of such complexity, we need ways to understand the assemblages that…
From South to North and back again: Making and blurring boundaries in conversations across borders
Speak American
Build the Wall: Post-Truth on the US-Mexico Border
Discourse Analysis
This entry discusses discourse analysis (hereafter “DA”) in linguistic anthropology and the related field of sociolinguistics, where “discourse analysis” refers to methods used to analyze the content, sociopolitical significance, and interactional effects of semiotic practices for the purpose of systematically showing how these practices shape social processes. Referring to DA in these fields as sociocultural studies of discourse, the entry revie…
Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young PeopleDeborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio, eds. (New York: NYU Press, 2019)
Sociology (13 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works)