Language otherwise: Linguistic natures and the ontological challenge

Linguistic anthropology has remained largely unaffected by debates about ontology in other subfields. In turn, the concept of language been conspicuously absent from ontological debates. The past few years, however, have seen attempts at articulating two, interrogating what is ethnographic perspectives and extending analytic focus to ontologies or linguistic natures. This article discusses such efforts compares them previous critical engagements with language. Calling into question equivalence within across cultures, communities, regions, it explores understandings that go against grain existing theoretical models.