Peripheral Linguistic Brutality

Peripheral Linguistic Brutality is a sociolinguistic investigation into the production of “metalness” through language in the Asia Pacific. Concentrating on the ways local music scenes adopt, reject, and modify linguistic ideologies, the authors (hosts of the podcast Lingua Brutallica ) examine how translocal participation in metal settings shapes how and why specific language forms are used to construct “metal language.” Although much research has been done on language flows and use in global s