This chapter documents the development of a university-level Blackfoot language course in which many of the students are linguistic inheritors (Rampton 1990) of Blackfoot. In attempting to integrate “the study of the culture of language into documentary linguistics” (Hill 2006: 113), we observe how… read more
This chapter analyzes the “language panic” (Hill 2008) following Hillary Clinton’s register-shifting performance of the gospel song “I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired” during the U.S. presidential campaign in 2007. We observe that mediatization (Agha 2011b) creates and maintains the conditions by which… read more