"This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern Sociolinguistics. It showcases voices from the Global South that substitute alternative and complementary narrations of the link between language and society for canonical renditions of the field. Drawing on Southern Epistemologies, the volume critically explores the entangled histories of racial colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in perpetuating prejudice in and around language as a means of encouraging the conceptualization of alternative epistemological futures for Sociolinguistics. The book features work by both established and emerging scholars, and is organized around four parts: The politics of the constitution of language, and its metalanguage, in the Global South; Who gets published in Sociolinguistics? Language in the Global South and the social inscription of difference; and Learning and the quotidian experience of language in the Global South. This book will be of interest to scholars in Sociolinguistics, Applied linguistics, Critical race and ethnic studies, and Philosophy of knowledge"--
This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern Sociolinguistics. It showcases voices from the Global South that substitute alternative and complementary narrations of the link between language and society for canonical renditions of the field.
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| Foreword |
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| Introduction |
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PART I The politics of the constitution of language, and its metalanguage, in the Global South |
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1 Can there be a politics of language? Reflections on language and metalanguage |
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2 Shallow grammar and African American English: Evaluating the master's tools in linguistics |
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3 Multilingual socialization and development of multilingualism as a first language: Implications for multilingual education |
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4 Questioning epistemic racism in issues of language studies in Brazil: The case of Pretugues versus popular Brazilian Portuguese |
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5 Baptism of indigenous languages into an ideology: A decolonial critique of missionary linguistics in South-Eastern Nigeria |
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6 Christian-lects and Islam-lects: On religious inventions of languages |
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PART II Who gets published in sociolinguistics? |
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7 Black female scholarship matters: Erasure of black African women's sociolinguistic scholarship |
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8 African contributions to four journals of sociolinguistics |
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PART III Language in the Global South and the social inscription of difference |
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9 Begging for "authenticity": Language, class and race politics in South Africa |
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10 Mandarin Chinese as the national language and its discontents |
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11 Minoritized youth language in Norwegian media discourse: Surfacing the abyssal line |
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PART IV Learning and the quotidian experience of language in the Global South |
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12 The lexico-semantics of Whiteness and its transactionalization in Black African languages |
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13 Linguistic governmentality, neoliberalism, and Communicative Language Teaching: Invisibility of indigenous ethnic languages in the multilingual schools in Bangladesh |
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14 Making of an exile: An analytic autoethnography |
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| Epistolary afterword: Letter to the prince |
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| Epilogue: Every dog has its day; but the long-time underdog can't wait any longer for that day! |
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Bassey E. Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. His research interests span across multilingualism, terminology, language and health, the politics of language, and Southern epistemologies. A co-edited volume, Decolonial Voices, Language, and Race, appeared in 2022 (Multilingual Matters). Previous work has included a monograph and two co-edited volumes.
Sinfree Makoni is Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. He has held a number of different positions in the United States and Southern Africa. He has published extensively in the areas of language in health, language policy and planning, and decolonial and Southern epistemologies. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Linguistics and holds a number of honorary appointments in universities in Africa.
