Toward a theory of language materiality: an introduction / Shalini Shankar and Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Curated conversation: "materiality: it's the stuff!" / Webb Keane and Michael Silverstein
Part I. Texts, objects, .ediality. Essay: Japan's trendy word grand prix and Kanji of the year: commodified language forms in multiple contexts / Laura Miller
Fontroversy! Or, how to care about the shape of language / Keith M. Murphy
Spelling materiality: the branded business of competitive spelling / Shalini Shankar
Part II. Transformation, aesthetics, embodiment. How the sausage gets made: food safety and the mediality of talk, documents, and food practices / Jillian R. Cavanaugh
"Your mouth is your lorry!": How honk horns voice the acoustic materiality of reputation in Accra / Steven Feld
Transduction in religious discourse: vocalization and sound reproduction in Mauritian Muslim devotional practices / Patrick Eisenlohr
Part III: Time, place, circulation. Making and marketing in the bilingual periphery: materialization as metacultural transformation / Nikolas Coupland and Helen Kelly-Holmes
Word-things and thing-words: the transmodal production of privilege and status / Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski
Language and materiality in the renaming of Indigenous North American languages and peoples / Robert Moore
The semiotic ecology of drinks and talk in Georgia / Paul Manning
Part IV. More stuff: short topical commentaries on language and materiality and afteword. 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.