Identifier
978-3319774183
Description
First edition. Abstract and cover image currently available
Size or Duration
1 page
Copyright date
2018
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2018
Collection
Faculty Publications
Format
Description
Rooted in the performative of Speech Act Theory, this interdisciplinary study crafts a new model to compare the work we do with words when we protest: across genres (chants, songs, poetry, prose), from different geographies (Turkey, U.S., West Germany, Romania, Great Britain, Guatemala, Northern Ireland) and from different languages (Turkish, Spanish, English, German, Romanian, Ki’che’, Irish Gaeilge). This model generates two new concepts: pragmatic legitimacy, when a hearer recognizes a speech act, regardless of genre, as one of protest; and convocativity, the effect of convoking hearers into distinct camps, creating degrees of solidarity or distance on the protest issue. Framed by the metaphor of a neighbourhood, the book opens by defining protest, as an expression of social, political or cultural dissent, supported by a wide range of examples, and concludes with a discussion of the McLuhan dictum of the “medium is the message” as emerging in a virtual commons
LCSH Subject
Speech acts (Linguistics); Language and Languages -- Political aspects; Political activists
Date accessioned
10/24/2024
Medium
Portion of manuscript
Included in
Comparative and Historical Linguistics Commons, Comparative Literature Commons, Social Justice Commons