Soundings and the Politics of Sociolinguistic Listening for Transnational Space

In a world dominated by the visual, this book presents how a focus on the sounded experience and acts of listening may carve a way to reformulate emerging publics, create space for critical multilingual engagement and deepen recognition of emancipatory practices. Examining the emerging logics and rhythms among a group of post-EU accession UK Polish migrants, this book focuses on the semiotic processes through which contemporary moving bodies and communities place themselves in sociolinguistic landscapes. It considers how they develop metrics to account for sociolinguistic change and authenticate their projects and practices in transnational timespace. In doing so, the book brings power differentials to the centre of language and objectivity debates and foregrounds material semiotics as an approach that enables a new collective potential and redefinition of sociolinguistic listening. By connecting research on scale in migration contexts with studies of embodied soundwork and of stance in semiotics, this book highlights how a focus on the sounded sign may bring us closer to the ways in which bodies and meanings are (re)made, and collective doing and thinking are formed in the globalised world.>

Préface
Through examining the emerging logics and rhythms among a group of Polish migrants, this book focuses on the semiotic processes through which bodies and communities place themselves in sociolinguistic landscapes.

Auteur
Kinga Kozminska is Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication at Birkbeck, University of London.

Contenu

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Transcription Conventions 1. Unsettling Systems of Domination 2. Politics of Sounding out and Being Heard 3. Weaving Webs of Material-Semiotic Practices in a Community of Movement 4. Juxtaposing Dominant Images of Time-Space-Personhood 5. Redefining Sociolinguistic Listening References Index