Crip Linguistics

Crip linguistics frames language as a form of care work where we work collectively to provide access and co-construct meaning.

PsyArXiv Preprints | Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: Imaging a Crip Linguistics

Crip Linguistics is a way for linguistics to analyze disability as a variationist perspective in languaging. It asks linguists to understand that language cannot be disordered, but bodies can be disordered in a way that affects languaging. And often, how people perceive disordered bodies make them think that the language produced by those bodies is disordered (when it’s not).

PsyArXiv Preprints | How to train your abled linguist: A Crip Linguistics perspective on pragmatic research

Disabled ways of languaging are primarily about modality.

Crip Linguistics Intro

People use languages in different ways. Some people use language to help find other people like them. Many people use language in specific ways because of how their body and mind work. Sometimes a person’s environment and material conditions forces them to use language in a certain way. However, when someone languages outside of what people think is normal, others can think that they are bad with language or are not as smart or are broken. We are trying to point out that no one is actually ‘bad with language.’ Our goal with this paper is to help people understand that no language is bad. It is okay to want to change your own language use if it will make you feel better. But no one should make you feel bad about your language. We need a bigger and more flexible understanding of what language is and what it communicates about a bodymind’s capacity.

PsyArXiv Preprints | Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: Imaging a Crip Linguistics

We are trying to point out that no one is actually ‘bad with language.’ Our goal with this paper is to help people understand that no language is bad.

PsyArXiv Preprints | Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: Imaging a Crip Linguistics

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