Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: A Crip Linguistics Manifesto
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We introduce Crip Linguistics as a theoretical and abolitionist framework. People use languages in different ways. Some people use language to help find other people like themselves. Many people use language in specific ways because of how their body and mind work. Sometimes a person’s material conditions, and environment forces them to use language in a certain way. When someone languages outside of what people think is normal, others can think they are bad with language, or are not as smart as someone else. No one is actually ‘bad with language.’ We want to help people understand that no language is bad. It is okay to want to change your language use if it will make you feel better. No one should make you feel badly about your language. We need a bigger and more flexible understanding of what language is.
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Non-speech cues are central to disabled communicative practices, including those of autistic people, deaf people, and people with aphasia.
“Beyond stuttering, non-speech cues are central to disabled communicative practices [41], including those of autistic people [3], deaf people [55], and people with aphasia [34].”
From Disability-First AI Dataset Annotation: Co-designing Stuttered Speech Annotation Guidelines with People Who Stutter (2026) · cites this paper as [41]
Many accessibility tasks require deeply personal embodied knowledge that disabled people possess, such as sign language translation and disabled people's non-normative communication practices.
“Similarly, as explained in Section 8.1, many accessibility tasks require deeply personal embodied knowledge that disabled people possess, such as sign language translation [12, 95, 97], and disabled people's non-normative communication practices [3, 34, 41].”
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- Authors
- Henner, J., & Robinson, O.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro (US)
- Gallaudet University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability
- Publisher
- The Ohio State University Libraries
- Published
- 2023-04-16
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2997-3511 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W7166513925
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- 107
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 30 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 9
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- 26.83
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Disability Rights and Representation
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Keywords
- disability studies, language and disability, body-mind, language use, abolitionism, disability theory, language ideology
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