Intra-Caribbean Solidarities and the Language of Social Protest

Autor/inn/en	Hamm-Rodríguez, Molly; Medina, Carmen Liliana
Titel	Intra-Caribbean Solidarities and the Language of Social Protest
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 42 (2021) 6, S.1138-1143 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/amab038
Schlagwörter	Activism; Group Unity; Geographic Regions; Postcolonialism; Sociolinguistics; Semiotics; Social Media; Social History; Futures (of Society); Language Usage; Foreign Countries; Puerto Rico; Dominican Republic; Caribbean + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Gruppenidentität; Post colonialism; Postkolonialismus; Soziolinguistik; Semiotik; Soziale Medien; Sozialgeschichte; Future; Society; Zukunft; Sprachgebrauch; Ausland; Dominikanische Republik
Abstract	This essay explores the language of social protest in two geographic and diasporic locations in the Caribbean (Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic) with long and ongoing histories of colonialism and imperialism. We analyze social media and digital mobilizing to examine how, in the midst of social protest, linguistic and semiotic tools indexed historicity, contemporaneity, and futurity through relational strategies that are not just textual and discursive, but also historical, social, and political. Throughout this essay, we share examples of intertextual and interdiscursive strategies that marked particular moments of protest as articulations of historical precedents, imperial and colonial presents, and alternative futures. These examples reveal how collective identities (i.e. el pueblo) are mobilized in social protest to generate counternarratives that address structures and systems rather than locate social critiques in particular individuals and political parties. In shedding light on the intra-Caribbean solidarities that emerge over time, this analysis also points to a need to examine the erasures (Gal and Irvine 2019) performed through claims to unity and collective organizing. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01