37.1194, Books: The Language of Marginality and Subjectivity in a Global Context: Piazza, Ringrow, Maruenda-Bataller, and Gregori-Signes (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 20-Mar-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Language of Marginality and Subjectivity in a Global Context: Piazza, Ringrow, Maruenda-Bataller and Gregori-Signes (eds.) (2026)


Title: The Language of Marginality and Subjectivity in a Global
Context
Series Title: Advances in Sociolinguistics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/language-of-marginality-and-subjectivity-in-a-global-context-9781350448582/

Editor(s): Roberta Piazza, Helen Ringrow, Sergio Maruenda-Bataller &
Carmen Gregori-Signes

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350448582, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

This book expands and deepens the investigation of the language
associated with or produced by groups that are socially, culturally,
racially and economically outliers and whose marginalisation results
in a different engagement with and participation in mainstream
society's activities.
It features case studies from across the globe, including Ghana,
Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Zambia, addressing the
construction (and self-construction) of marginalisation and diversity
in discourse and society, bringing to light many unheard and hidden
voices and perspectives. The 14 chapters explore a wide range of forms
of marginalisation and diversity as global issues that have an impact
on societies worldwide, in terms of exclusion in the guise of
non-participation in mainstream society's activities and contestation
in different international contexts.
The contributions in the book capture how vulnerable individuals and
groups occupying the in-between spaces of marginality navigate through
them and construct themselves as dissenting and diverse; how they are
aware of their condition at a certain point in time and how they are
able to reflect resourcefully on it. Aspiration to a safe place away
from the street for individuals at risk of rough sleeping can find an
echo in the desire to escape the oppression of a despotic regime that
limits Saudi women's freedom. On the contrary, cases of negative
self-exclusion are exemplified by the language of Men's Rights
Activists who, critical of society's oppression of men, engage in a
condemnation of women and feminism. In both cases, there is a conflict
between periphery of society and mainstream, although the language of
the excluded still engages with the hegemonic society in a form of
intrinsic contestation.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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