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List of images; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Toward a theory of language materiality: an introduction Shalini Shankar and Jillian R. Cavanaugh; 2. Curated conversation: ?materiality: it?s the stuff!? Webb Keane and Michael Silverstein; Part I. Texts, Objects, Mediality: 3. Japan?s trendy word grand prix and Kanji of the year: commodified language forms in multiple contexts Laura Miller; 4. Fontroversy! Or, how to care about the shape of language Keith M. Murphy; 5. Spelling materiality: the branded business of competitive spelling Shalini Shankar; Part II. Transformation, Aesthetics, Embodiment: 6. How the sausage gets made: food safety and the mediality of talk, documents, and food practices Jillian R. Cavanaugh; 7. ?Your mouth is your lorry!? How honk horns voice the acoustic materiality of reputation in Accra Steven Feld; 8. Transduction in religious discourse: vocalization and sound reproduction in Mauritian Muslim devotional practices Patrick Eisenlohr; Part III. Time, Place, Circulation: 9. Making and marketing in the bilingual periphery: materialization as metacultural transformation Nikolas Coupland and Helen Kelly-Holmes; 10. Word-things and thing-words: the transmodal production of privilege and status Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski; 11. Language and materiality in the renaming of Indigenous North American languages and peoples Robert Moore; 12. The semiotic ecology of drinks and talk in Georgia Paul Manning; Part IV. More Stuff: Short Topical Commentaries on Language and Materiality and Afterword: Can language be a commodity? Monica Heller; Language, music, materiality (and immateriality): entanglements beyond the ?symbolic? Paja Faudree; Why bodies matter Mary Bucholtz; Physicality and texts: rematerializing the transparent Jennifer Dickinson; History, artifacts, and the language of culture change in archaeology Mark W. Hauser; Afterword: materiality and language, or material language? Dualisms and embodiments Judith T. Irvine; Index.

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