argotiquely's Lair

Speech Play & Verbal Art Pairs: Linguistic anthropology is, to quote the SLA, "devoted to exploring and understanding the ways in which language shapes, and is shaped by, social life, from face-to-face interaction to global-level phenomena". From memes to ritual, this theme draws on the linguistic anthropological study of playful, performative, and transgressive discourse, which provide a space where society, structures, power, and language itself can be interrogated and altered.