[Linganth] Linguistic Anthropology Lessons on Black Lives Matter and Police Violence

Sat Sep 24 02:49:01 UTC 2016

Thanks for the mention, Michael. There’s also a third article from that
line of research in Language & Communication:

Hodges, Adam (2016). “Accusatory and Exculpatory Moves in the Hunting for
‘Racists’ Language Game.” *Language & Communication* 47: 1-14.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530915000932

In addition, at last year’s AAA, Norma Mendoza-Denton gave a fascinating
presentation on her current work on “linguistic entrapment,” which deals
with communicative assumptions in police-civilian encounters. I’m not aware
of any publications yet, but you might check with her.

Adam

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Michael Prentice <mprentic at umich.edu>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Adam Hodges has also recently come out with a few articles that examine
> implicit assumptions built in/across news discourse around the Trayvon
> Martin incident that students may find accessible if they are doing
> discourse analysis. Many references there-in as well.
>
> Hodges, Adam (2015). Ideologies of Language and Race in US Media Discourse
> about the Trayvon Martin Shooting. *Language in Society *44 (3): 401–423.
> Link
> <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-in-society/article/ideologies-of-language-and-race-in-us-media-discourse-about-the-trayvon-martin-shooting/F4C5749CDDEEE6582C7CE4BC308A8413>
>
>
> Hodges, Adam (2016). Hunting for “Racists”: Tape Fetishism and the
> Intertextual Enactment and Reproduction of the Dominant Understanding of
> Racism in US Society. *Journal of Linguistic Anthropology* 26 (1): 26–40.
> Link
> <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jola.12106/full>
>
> Best,
> Michael
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Bonnie McElhinny <
> bonnie.mcelhinny at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I just wanted to share these publications  that I've done on related
>> issues.  Though they were based on research conducted at a different moment
>> (1990s), there are some perduring issues......
>>
>> Bonnie McElhinny
>>
>>
>> 2003a. “Fearful, Forceful Agents of the Law:  Ideologies about Language
>> and Gender in Police Officers’ Narratives about the Use of Physical Force”
>> *Pragmatics*  13(2):253-284.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2001  "See No Evil, Speak No Evil:  White Police Officers' Arguments
>> Around Race and Affirmative Action."  *Journal of Linguistic
>> Anthropology* .  11(1):65-78.
>>
>> 1998b  "'I Don't Smile Much Anymore':  Affect, Gender and the Discourse
>> of Pittsburgh Police Officers."  *Language and Gender:  A Reader*, ed.
>> Jennifer Coates.  Malden, MA:  Blackwell.    Pp.  309-327.
>>
>>
>> 1995“Challenging Hegemonic Masculinities:  Female and Male Police
>> Officers Handling Domestic Violence.”  *Gender Articulated*, eds. Kira
>> Hall and Mary Bucholtz.  NY:  Routledge, pp. 217-          243.
>>
>> 1995    Cunningham, Clark and Bonnie McElhinny.  "Taking it to the
>> Streets:  Putting Discourse Analysis to the Service of a Public
>> Defender's Office" * Clinical Law Review*  2(1):285-314.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1994    “An Economy of Affect:  Objectivity, Masculinity and the
>> Gendering of Police Work.”       In *Dislocating Masculinity:
>> Comparative Ethnographies*, eds. Andrea Cornwall and Nancy
>> Lindisfarne.  NY:  Routledge.  159-171.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>> **************
>> Bonnie McElhinny
>> Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies Institute
>> University of Toronto
>>
>> Associate Editor, Journal of Sociolinguistics
>>
>> Anthropology:  Room 364, Anthropology Building, 19 Russell St., Univ. of
>> Toronto
>> Toronto, ON, CANADA M5S 2S2
>> Ph:  416-978-3297
>>
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>> Toronto
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>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] on behalf
>> of Dick, Hilary [dickh at arcadia.edu]
>> *Sent:* September-23-16 1:16 PM
>> *To:* Berman, Elise
>> *Cc:* LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>> *Subject:* Re: [Linganth] Linguistic Anthropology Lessons on Black Lives
>> Matter and Police Violence
>>
>> And apologies Jon*a*than for excluding the first "a" from your name!
>> Trying to do too many things at once...
>> Cheers,
>> Hilary
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Dick, Hilary <dickh at arcadia.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Elise (and everyone)--
>>>
>>> I haven't taught a ling anth unit on this topic, but one useful resource
>>> would certainly be Yarimar Bonilla & Jonthan Rosa's excellent 2015 AE
>>> article "#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial
>>> politics of social media in the United States," along with the digital
>>> supplement that accompanies the article, available here--
>>> http://americanethnologist.org/2014/anthropology-ferguson-missouri/
>>>
>>> I've used this material in other classes (that were not ling anth) and
>>> students enjoyed and appreciated it, and found it accessible to
>>> read/comprehend.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Hilary
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Berman, Elise <eberman at uncc.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I teach at UNC Charlotte, around a mile away from where the man was
>>>> killed on Tuesday. I am teaching introduction to linguistic
>>>> anthropology this semester, and I planned the whole syllabus around
>>>> getting students to apply linguistic anthropological ideas (language
>>>> diversity, language and identity, language and power, ideologies,
>>>> etc.) by analyzing the language gap hypothesis. So I had planned to
>>>> spend a lot of time talking about the relationship between language
>>>> and inequality, but had not intended to explicitly connect these
>>>> discussions to police violence.
>>>>
>>>> Now, however, I think I need to talk about police violence (and next
>>>> week, even though in the class we are still on language structure). I
>>>> was wondering if anyone had planned specific lessons on police
>>>> violence and black lives matter in linguistic anthropology classes and
>>>> would be willing to share what they did? There are obviously a lot of
>>>> different connections, but I am having some difficulty thinking about
>>>> how to incorporate them into the schedule/conceptual and skill
>>>> development activities that I had already planned.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Elise
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Elise Berman
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Department of Anthropology
>>>> UNC Charlotte
>>>> https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/elise-berman/
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> HILARY PARSONS DICK, PhD
>>> Associate Professor of International Studies
>>> Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow (2016)
>>> Department of Historical and Political Studies
>>> *Arcadia University*
>>> <https://www.arcadia.edu/profile/hilary-dick>
>>> <dickh at arcadia.edu>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Associate Professor of International Studies
>> Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow (2016)
>> Department of Historical and Political Studies
>> *Arcadia University*
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>> <dickh at arcadia.edu>
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> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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