Responsibility and Language Practices in Place

Laura Siragusa · Jenanne K. Ferguson

Aug 2020 · Studia Fennica Anthropologica Book 4 · Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura

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This volume includes chapters by junior and senior scholars hailing from Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania, all of whom sought to understand the social and cultural implications surrounding how people take responsibility for the ways they speak or write in relation to a place—whether it is one they have long resided in, recently moved to, or left a long time ago.

The contributors to the volume investigate ‘responsibility’ in and through language practices as inspired by the roots of the (English) word itself: the ability to respond, or mount a response to a situation at hand. It is thus a ‘responsive’ kind of responsibility, one that focuses not only on demonstrating responsibility for language, but highlighting the various ways we respond to situations discursively and metalinguistically. This sort of responsibility is both part of individual and collectively negotiated concerns that shift as people contend with processes related to globalization.

About the author

Laura Siragusa (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6991-2313), PhD, is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist, currently working at the University of Helsinki as a researcher. Among her most relevant publications are her monograph, Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia (Routledge, 2017), and articles in two special issues she has co-edited on Language Sustainability for Anthropologica (2017) and Indigenous Conceptualizations of Sustainability for Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (2020).

Jenanne Ferguson (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0249-2638) PhD, is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist and the author of Words Like Birds: Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), as well as recent articles in varied journals such as Language Policy, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

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