Soft linguistic terrorism

21St Century Re-Articulations

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22260677
AutoresMike Mena (0000-0002-9426-241X, Brooklyn College, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume2
Fascículo2
Páginas123-144
Data de publicação2023-12-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducational Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2748-9310 • E-ISSN: 2748-9329
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/eduling-2023-0003
OpenAlexW4384827202
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas55

Over three decades ago, Gloria Anzaldúa identified ideologies of linguistic standardization as an oppressive force in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas as well as the local university. Such ideologies were used to delegitimize Chicanos via “linguistic terrorism,” or, routine forms of psychological and physical punishment meant to enforce idealized white, middle-class, monolingual social norms. However, times have changed. To account for more recent conditions, I qualify contemporary manifestations as soft linguistic terrorism , which relies more so on incentivization (reward as opposed to punishment) and ideological recruitment (enforcement based on the appearance of consent), yet continue to reproduce the near identical racializing ideologies Anzaldúa identified decades ago. Using a linguistic anthropological approach to discourse analysis, this article focuses on ethnographic interviews with students and faculty to illustrate how forms of linguistic terrorism have been rearticulated via raciolinguistic ideologies in the same region and at the same university that inspired Anzaldúa’s formulation of linguistic terrorism in the 1980s

Criminology · Ethnography · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrorism · Anthropology · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology