Editorial work outside the epistemic dungeon: studying “language and culture” in difficult times

It is a complicated, often contradictory and difficult process, but we do enjoy facing the challenge of leaving the “epistemic dungeon” by acknowledging specifically the individualism and artful voices of many contributors of The Mouth. What we appreciate each time we get to work on a new issue of our journal, is not a perfect academic style or finding the latest publication appropriately cited somewhere, but the original thinking and creativity offered to us, together with the possibility of connecting with diverse epistemic contexts, and learning something new and unknown as soon as we dive into the submitted texts. We were, and we are still amazed by diverse and thought-provoking papers we received, on a range of topics that are linked to linguistic and cultural practice – yet still outside of mainstream categories of linguistic anthropology or anthropological linguistics.