About the Journal
The Mouth is an open-access journal devoted to the critical study of language practices and ideologies, cultural concepts and social contexts. It is transdisciplinary and not bound to a single particular form. Contributions can be written texts of varying size and genre, images, videos and other formats, in different languages.
Our Mission
We are convinced that thoughts can be expressed in multiple ways. This journal supports the openness to forms of texts and to practices of language, which we see as essential for publishing a wide variety of thoughts, expressions and concepts. We are sensitive to positionalities and to the ways in which stories are told in different ways, as well as to different forms of theorizing in various languages and societies other than the ones in which we live. Attempting to learn from others, we will continue to create a journal that allows for multiple forms of expressions and texts, which also includes podcasts and visual material that transmit knowledges in a variety of ways.
Current Issue
Vol. 12 (2025): Out of the Norm?! Producing, Evaluating, and Perpetuating Gender Difference through Language Practice
In this thematic issue, we explore how linguistic practices serve as essential tools for the performative production of social categories, with a special focus on gender. Drawing on different theoretical frameworks and examples from case studies of various speech communities and social realms, the contributions examine how gender is constructed through iterative speech acts, establishing some of these constructions as the norm, while identifying (and often devaluating) others as deviations. In this exploration, we concentrate on three distinct manifestations of the performative potential of language practices: Language structure, indexicalities and discourse.
Published:
2025-12-23
