Neriko Musha Doerr Boeken

Focusing on the politics of perception, the book introduces innovative concepts such as "tinted glasses," "unit-thinking," and "coherants" to explore how we interpret the world. By analyzing experiences in a Japanese heritage language school, a study-abroad trip to Sierra Leone, and college classrooms, it uncovers the influence of unit-thinking and fetishism across various settings. The work ultimately seeks to understand these dynamics and their potential to foster social change.

This volume explores „performative linguistic space“, namely a space which ushers or hinders linguistic practices. Space is made productive as a result of individuals who bring linguistic politics from diverse spaces into new ones. By moving away from the notions of discrete units of language and linguistic communities associated with a specific space, this volume suggests a fluid productive aspect of space. It goes beyond the assumed space-linguistic community association through ethnographic accounts that mediate linguistic anthropology, cultural geography, sociolinguistics, and deaf studies.