(NON-) SPEECH ACTS: THE PERFORMATIVE POWER OF SILENCE.
Judgment of accented speech as "inferior English" or "immigrant speech" reinforces an aural type of racial discrimination, especially in the political context of education and the state. The institutional silencing of "defective" speech substantiates the practice of self-silencing in which the (non-...
| Publicado en: | Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies Vol. 16; pp. 153 - 180 |
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Research Foundation of SUNY on behalf of SUNY Cortland
2016
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| Sumario: | Judgment of accented speech as "inferior English" or "immigrant speech" reinforces an aural type of racial discrimination, especially in the political context of education and the state. The institutional silencing of "defective" speech substantiates the practice of self-silencing in which the (non-) speech act functions as a phenomenological engagement and as a non-performativity of racial difference. |
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