[Linganth] CFP for AAA: Language, play, and resistance to oppression

[Lynnette Arnold]

Dear colleagues -

I'm circulating this timely and open-ended CFP for a graduate student who
is still working on getting access to the Ling Anth list. If interested,
email her directly at marybelleiss at umass.edu

Language, play, and resistance to oppression

What can we learn about oppressive systems by studying the play, the
carnivalesque, and the alternative ways of interacting and being that have
emerged as techniques to escape and resist forms of domination including
language standardization and language oppression? Where does the festival
suspension of rules meet the rebels in the hills? What do their tactics, in
the shadow of power, tell us about the shape and trajectory of that power?

Our current ideas for papers on this topic include painting and poetry as
counter-colonial discourses; dark contexts behind lighthearted celebrations
of dialect; communication strategies against oppressive surveillance
systems.

best,

Lynnette
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