In this article I discuss the close relationship between colonialism and the expansion of language. Language is always politically contested. A language can become an international language today because it has a long history of colonization and subjugation of other groups of people. I analyze the sociopolitical dimension of tongues by engaging, among others, linguist Roman Jakobson, philosopher Michel Foucault, and cultural theorist Judith Butler. By placing tongues in the context of the politics of language, I aim to show that the practice of speaking in tongues can be viewed as a strategic subversion and disruption of the regime of normalized language. In this article I discuss the close relationship between colonialism and the expansion of language. Language is always politically contested. A language can become an international language today because it has a long history of colonization and subjugation of other groups of people. I analyze the sociopolitical dimension of tongues by engaging, among others, linguist Roman Jakobson, philosopher Michel Foucault, and cultural theorist Judith Butler. By placing tongues in the context of the politics of language, I aim to show that the practice of speaking in tongues can be viewed as a strategic subversion and disruption of the regime of normalized language.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2016
توصيف ظاهري
293-311
عنوان
Pneuma
شماره جلد
38/3
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1570-0747
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
glossolalia
اصطلاح موضوعی
language
اصطلاح موضوعی
Pentecostalism
اصطلاح موضوعی
politics
اصطلاح موضوعی
postcolonialism
اصطلاح موضوعی
tongues
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