Book chapter
Public Verbal Violence against Spanish-Speaking Migrants in the USA
Advocating for Sociolinguistic Justice in the United States, pp.146-166
Routledge studies in sociolinguistics, Routledge
2024
DOI: 10.4324/9781003442288-8
Abstract
National imaginaries place languages in hierarchies according to a perceived prestige or lack of it. Speakers of a high-prestige language or language variety sometimes rhetorically exhibit hierarchy to rebuke perceived challenges. Examining public documents and contemporary newspaper accounts as well as recorded interactions captured by citizens and spread by social media in the USA, I analyze the various ways linguistic privilege is publicly manifested through verbally violent acts. Such language contributes to anti-immigrant sentiments but also makes them explicit in a way that can be controversial. I address four cases of public attacks on speakers who used the Spanish language and were subjected to incidents of linguistic abuse. Becoming aware of linguistic privilege is the first step to consciousness favoring sociolinguistic justice.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Public Verbal Violence against Spanish-Speaking Migrants in the USA
- Creators
- Mercedes Niño-Murcia
- Contributors
- Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia (Editor)Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza (Editor)Mercedes Niño-Murcia (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Advocating for Sociolinguistic Justice in the United States, pp.146-166
- Series
- Routledge studies in sociolinguistics
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003442288-8
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York, NY
- Alternative title
- Public Verbal Violence against Spanish-Speaking Migrants
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 9984701858202771
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