Redoing Linguistic Worlds

Unmaking Gender Binaries, Remaking Gender Pluralities

Kris Aric Knisely, Eric Louis Russell

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781800415089
• eBook ISBN:
  9781800415119
• Topic: Langues et linguistique
• Subtopic: Sociolinguistique

Language and gender are interconnected, social and relational acts through which we constantly remake our worlds. But what happens when our ways of doing gender cannot be neatly categorized into traditional binary systems, including not only the social groupings of roles, practices and identities, but also the forms and structures through which we do language? This book brings together a broad range of scholars to explore the undoing and redoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, in and through their linguistic and social reimaginings. Each of the contributions to this book reflects on this ongoing change and its place in our everyday lives, including the ways that its outcomes are both contested and fluid. This volume represents an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that stands to inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings and one that calls on all of us to stand in the tensions of our own humanity and look through it for how our languaging might 'do' imaginary worlds that are more equitable, more connected, and more just for us all.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Critical Language and Literacy Studies
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Introduction: Redoing Linguistic Worlds
• Part 1: Languagers and Genderers
• Part 2: Unmaking Gender Binaries and Remaking Gender Pluralities in the Classroom
• Part 3: Unmaking Gender Binaries and Remaking Gender Pluralities in Sociolinguistic Space
• Part 4: Unmaking Gender Binaries and Remaking Gender Pluralities as Resistance and Social Change
• Redoing and Undoing: When a Conclusion Is Just the Beginning
• Index