Lydia Catedral
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lydia Catedral is involved.
2025 “We are workers, we are not slaves”: The importance of grassroots discourses on decent work for migrant domestic workers Journal of Language and Politics 25:3, pp. 459–480 | Article
We argue that grassroots participation in multilateral negotiations over norm-setting is important because grassroots discourses differ from those of multilateral organizations. To compare the two, we use sociolinguistic theories that link embodied experience, ideology and discourse. We analyze… read more
2022 (Re)chronotopizing the pandemic: Migrant domestic workers’ calls for social change Chronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 136–161 | Article
In this article I apply the notions of chronotope and (re)chronotopization to the case of grassroots, migrant domestic worker (MDW) led activism during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong. I compare the chronotopes that are produced by the Hong Kong government with those produced by migrant-led… read more
2022 Chronotopic resolution, embodied subjectivity, and collective learning: A sociolinguistic theory of survival Chronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 189–217 | Article
In our contribution to this special issue on “Chronotopes & the COVID-19 Pandemic”, we discuss the complexities of human survival and its dependence on collective learning. We argue that collective learning – and thus survival – is a sociolinguistic phenomenon and lay out a fractal system in… read more
2018 Uncivil Twitter: A sociopragmatic analysis Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6:1, pp. 26–57 | Article
Using four tweets by Steven Salaita about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that resulted in the retraction of his academic job offer in September 2014 as our case study, we investigate the role of Twitter in the shaping and reception of the controversial messages. Our analysis combines Gricean… read more
2017 Uzbek re-modeled: Russian loanwords in post-soviet Uzbek media Journal of Language and Politics 16:2, pp. 313–333 | Article
This study investigates the relationship between Russian language use and language planning in the context of newly independent, post-soviet Uzbekistan (1991–1992). It is guided by the question: In what ways does the use of Russian loanwords in Uzbek language newspapers accomplish language… read more