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Non­bi­na­ry gen­der iden­ti­ties lin­guis­tic prac­tices in Russ­ian and Czech
How do Russ­ian and Czech non­bi­na­ry peo­ple use lan­guage to con­struct their iden­ti­ty? This ques­tion has hard­ly been addressed so far, so this vol­ume describes and ana­lyzes the iden­ti­ty-dri­ven lin­guis­tic vari­a­tion of Russ­ian and Czech non­bi­na­ry speak­ers. If a lin­guis­tic fea­ture index­es the gen­der bina­ry in the stan­dard vari­ety, then a non­bi­na­ry speak­er – who desires to express their gen­der iden­ti­ty – in inter­ac­tion employs an alter­na­tive that lacks this fea­ture to per­form and thus lin­guis­ti­cal­ly con­struct non­bi­na­ry iden­ti­ty. This hypoth­e­sis is inves­ti­gat­ed using a tri­an­gu­la­tion of quan­ti­ta­tive and qual­i­ta­tive meth­ods, bank­ing on data from cor­po­ra and sur­veys. Among the most rel­e­vant prac­tices that have emerged are the overt intro­duc­tion of gen­der iden­ti­ty labels as well as pro­nouns and/or cho­sen agree­ment pat­terns into dis­course, the alter­na­tion of gen­der agree­ment pat­terns, and the use of plur­al end­ings with sin­gu­lar mean­ing.
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Home­mak­ing in the Russ­ian-speak­ing Dias­po­ra: Mate­r­i­al Cul­ture, Lan­guage and Iden­ti­ty
Bring­ing togeth­er schol­ars spe­cial­is­ing in Russ­ian stud­ies, lin­guis­tic and cul­tur­al anthro­pol­o­gy, soci­olin­guis­tics and eth­no­lin­guis­tics, this col­lec­tion exam­ines the dis­cur­sive prac­tices in which migrants‘ homes are framed, nego­ti­at­ed and con­struct­ed to reveal the com­plex­i­ty and ambiva­lence of home as a con­cept and as a phe­nom­e­non of social life.
By exam­in­ing migrants‘ sto­ries about mov­ing home, the book explores the stages of lin­guis­tic and cul­tur­al adap­ta­tion. It demon­strates that immi­grants‘ homes are semi­otic store­hous­es reveal­ing their own­ers‘ past and present as well as aspi­ra­tions for the future. It presents the first mul­ti­fac­eted inves­ti­ga­tion of the inter­de­pen­dence of mate­ri­al­i­ty and emo­tions and mate­ri­al­i­ty and lan­guage use by Russ­ian-speak­ing immi­grants.
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