This edited volume brings together ten compelling ethnographic case
studies from a range of global settings to explore how people build
metalinguistic communities defined not by use of a language, but
primarily by language ideologies and symbolic practices about the
language. The authors examine themes of agency, belonging, negotiating
hegemony, and combating cultural erasure and genocide in cultivating
meaningful metalinguistic communities. Case studies include Spanish
and Hebrew in the USA, Kurdish in Japan, Pataxó Hãhãhãe in Brazil, and
Gallo in France. The afterword, by Wesley L. Leonard, provides
theoretical and on-the-ground context as well as a forward-looking focus
on metalinguistic futurities. This book will be of interest to
interdisciplinary students and scholars in applied linguistics,
linguistic anthropology and migration studies.