The discursive chronotopes of waste: Temporal laminations and linguistic hauntings

Thurlow, Crispin; Pellanda, Alessandro; Wohlgemuth, Laura (2022). The discursive chronotopes of waste: Temporal laminations and linguistic hauntings. Language in society, 51(5), pp. 819-837. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S0047404522000616

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This paper presents two case-study examples of the discursive chronotopes by which
domestic waste is organized as a linguistic, spatial, and temporal configuration.
Marked by their liminality and temporal laminations, curbside garbage collection and
secondhand/thrift shops are major sociomaterial practices in Switzerland. The three
discursive chronotopes we address in these contexts are those concerned with
regulation, repression, and (re)valuation. By focusing on the temporalities of waste,
we complicate how linguistic landscape research typically conceives of, and
approaches, both space and language. The language of waste is not always visible or
even expressed. Indeed, waste is often deliberately rendered invisible – under the cover
of darkness, behind closed doors, sent elsewhere – and thereby functions as an act of
discursive suppression. For these reasons, we endorse a hauntological approach to
linguistic landscapes. (Waste, linguistic landscape, discursive chronotope, temporal
lamination, hauntology)

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