Abstract
Judgment of accented speech as “inferior English” or “immigrant speech” reinforces an aural type of racial discrimination, especially in the political context of education and the state. The institutional silencing of “defective” speech substantiates the practice of self-silencing in which the (non-) speech act functions as a phenomenological engagement and as a non-performativity of racial difference.
Recommended Citation
Davidson, Jane Chin
(2016)
"(Non-) Speech Acts: The Performative Power of Silence,"
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies: Vol. 16:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/wagadu/vol16/iss1/7
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