Racialization and the national body

(Re)defining selves and others in changing contexts of liberal democratic governance

Bibliographic Data

ID4178628
AuthorsJennifer B Delfino (0000-0002-1158-0093, University of Colorado Boulder , Boulder , Colorado , USA, corresponding author), Maureen Kosse (University of Colorado Boulder , Boulder , Colorado , USA)
Year2020
Volume2020
Issue265
Pages1-7
Publication date2020-09-25
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl-2020-2100
OpenAlexW3088399174
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

This introduction argues that understanding the co-construction of race, language, and nation is essential to understanding liberal democratic governance in today's world. Using the theories and methods of raciolinguistics, we argue that voicing and resemiotization are important discursive processes that people use to reconstitute selves and Others in relation to liberal democratic ideas about national belonging. Specifically, we examine how racialized redefinitions of "the body" are central to how right and left-leaning groups alike (re)define nationhood, albeit for different ends. We foreground an intersectional, international approach to understanding the role of language in constructing race and vice versa as well as the role of social media in how differently positioned groups seek empowerment

Corporate governance · Democracy · Empowerment · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Racialization · Sociology · Voice · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy

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