Britta Ingebretson
Biographic Data
| ID | 210483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Britta Ingebretson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Britta |
| FAMILY NAME | Ingebretson |
| SIGNATURE | INGEBRETSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6475-9460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transposition as activism: Toward a public‐facing linguistic anthropology
In 2023, the Demystifying Language Project (DLP) held a 3‐day writing workshop that brought together 12 scholars, paired with 11 undergraduates and 15 high schoolers, to collaboratively recompose their own peer‐reviewed articles into a genre legible to those without specialized training in language‐related disciplines. This was done through transposition as activism , or the process by which participants undermine, transcend, or defect from highl…
Living Fossils: The Politics of Language Preservation in Huangshan, China
This article examines the politics of language maintenance in Huangshan, China, home of the Huizhou topolects. I show how, under the guise of celebrating local heritage, local language documentation efforts encourage language demise throughpreemptive eulogization,the act of portraying a language or culture as being more moribund than it is. This has the effect of hastening language loss by portraying it as inevitable and already well underway. I …
The Tuhao and the Bureaucrat: The Qualia of “Quality” in Rural China
For the past thirty years, the Chinese state has focused on raising the quality ( suzhi ) of rural Chinese, who are seen as particularly lacking. This article shows how local bureaucrats undertake this project through distinguishing the stereotyped figure of the tuhao “rural rich,” who represents the façade of modernity without its substance, from the truly modern high-quality citizen. These oppositional figures are defined and identified through…
The Tuhao and the Bureaucrat: The Qualia of “Quality” in Rural China
For the past thirty years, the Chinese state has focused on raising the quality ( suzhi ) of rural Chinese, who are seen as particularly lacking. This article shows how local bureaucrats undertake this project through distinguishing the stereotyped figure of the tuhao “rural rich,” who represents the façade of modernity without its substance, from the truly modern high-quality citizen. These oppositional figures are defined and identified through…
Living Fossils: The Politics of Language Preservation in Huangshan, China
This article examines the politics of language maintenance in Huangshan, China, home of the Huizhou topolects. I show how, under the guise of celebrating local heritage, local language documentation efforts encourage language demise throughpreemptive eulogization,the act of portraying a language or culture as being more moribund than it is. This has the effect of hastening language loss by portraying it as inevitable and already well underway. I …
The Tuhao and the Bureaucrat: The Qualia of “Quality” in Rural China
For the past thirty years, the Chinese state has focused on raising the quality ( suzhi ) of rural Chinese, who are seen as particularly lacking. This article shows how local bureaucrats undertake this project through distinguishing the stereotyped figure of the tuhao “rural rich,” who represents the façade of modernity without its substance, from the truly modern high-quality citizen. These oppositional figures are defined and identified through…
Living Fossils: The Politics of Language Preservation in Huangshan, China
This article examines the politics of language maintenance in Huangshan, China, home of the Huizhou topolects. I show how, under the guise of celebrating local heritage, local language documentation efforts encourage language demise throughpreemptive eulogization,the act of portraying a language or culture as being more moribund than it is. This has the effect of hastening language loss by portraying it as inevitable and already well underway. I …
Transposition as activism: Toward a public‐facing linguistic anthropology
In 2023, the Demystifying Language Project (DLP) held a 3‐day writing workshop that brought together 12 scholars, paired with 11 undergraduates and 15 high schoolers, to collaboratively recompose their own peer‐reviewed articles into a genre legible to those without specialized training in language‐related disciplines. This was done through transposition as activism , or the process by which participants undermine, transcend, or defect from highl…
Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Business (1 works) · China (1 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (1 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (1 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 works) · Consciousness (1 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Environmental economics (1 works)