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Avineri Nette & Jesse Harasta (eds.), Metalinguistic communities: Case studies of agency, ideology, and symbolic uses of language. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xvii, 264. Pb. €100.
Metalinguistic communities: Case studies of agency, ideology, and symbolic uses of language, edited by Avineri Nette & Jesse Harasta, is a collection of papers that discuss the symbolic uses of language by speakers of minoritized languages. Keeping with the sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological nature of the volume, its contributors use ethnography to explore ‘agency, ideology, semiotics, and community in metalinguistic communities’ (2), showing how discourses, interactions, and practices intersect with the symbolic roles of minoritized language in diverse communities. The central argument this volume makes is that, aside from the goals of fluency and communication norms, minoritized language preservation and use are a...