<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>Today on the CaMP anthropology blog, Netta Avineri and Jesse Haraste discuss their</div><div>edited volume, <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Metalinguistic Communities: </font></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Case Studies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of Language.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="https://campanthropology.org">https://campanthropology.org</a></font><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Ilana</div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb: <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">This edited volume brings together ten compelling ethnographic case studies from a range of global settings to explore how people build </span><i style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">metalinguistic communities</i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px"> defined not by </span><i style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">use</i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px"> of a language, but primarily by language ideologies and symbolic practices </span><i style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">about</i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px"> the language.  The authors examine themes of agency, belonging, negotiating hegemony, and combating cultural erasure and genocide in cultivating meaningful </span><i style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">metalinguistic communities</i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">. Case studies include Spanish and Hebrew in the USA, Kurdish in Japan, Pataxó Hãhãhãe in Brazil, and Gallo in France. The afterword, by Wesley L. Leonard, provides theoretical and on-the-ground context as well as a forward-looking focus on </span><i style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">metalinguistic futurities</i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">. This book will be of interest to interdisciplinary students and scholars in applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology and migration studies.</span></div></div></div></div></div>