Intersektionalität und Sprache

Überlegungen zur Kritik an methodologischem Linguizismus

Abstract

(Hegemonic) Language is inherently intersectional, as is evident in this review of critical
research on language as an order of difference. Language as an order of difference, on the
other hand, has been a latecomer to general theorizations on difference and inequality,
and its place in debates on intersectionality seems rather marginal. This is where the core
concern of our contribution comes in, in which we propose the term methodological linguicism
as a term for the power-critical examination of patterns of perception and interpretation
of hegemonic language relations, which also reproduce linguistic ideological
knowledge within research processes that understand themselves as power-critical.