Soundings and the Politics of Sociolinguistic Listening for Transnational Space

Kinga Kozminska (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
11 January 2024

linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Communication studies; Migration, immigration & emigration

Series: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics

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.

By: Kinga Kozminska (Birkbeck University of London UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350331303
ISBN 10: 1350331309
Series: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 11 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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

Reviews for Soundings and the Politics of Sociolinguistic Listening for Transnational Space

In this highly innovative and well-researched book, Kozminska brings new, brilliant insights into the sociolinguistics of globalisation. Through the prism of Polish recent graduates and young professionals in the UK, she demonstrates the dynamic enmeshing of language and positionality in transnational spaces. -- Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Beautifully written, cogently argued, and politically engaged, this book is a ground-breaking contribution to sociolinguistics. It is a theoretical and analytical tour de force that forces the reader to completely reconsider the notions of sounding/listening in relation to mobility from a material semiotic perspective. A must read! -- Tommaso M. Milani, Pennsylvania State University, USA