From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics

Voices, Questions and Alternatives
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-78892-655-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 447 g

This book, which combines scholarly articles with interviews, seeks to imagine a decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are firmly grounded in southern approaches to knowledge production, focusing not only on epistemology but also on the complex relationship between epistemology and ontology. The chapters address issues ranging from author positionality to the central theorists of a southern sociolinguistics, and roam from the language classroom to the church, in ways which invite us to begin to decolonize ourselves and rethink normative assumptions about everything from academic writing to research methods and language teaching. The book provides scholars and teachers with inspiration for how to teach linguistics in ways that challenge colonial hegemonies and that allow one to ‘do’ sociolinguistics otherwise. It also makes a powerful argument that debates about decolonization, southern theory and social justice are not just academic pursuits: what is at stake is our future and how we imagine it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deumert, Ana

Makoni, Sinfree

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1. Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni: Introduction: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics

Chapter 2. Jaspal Naveel Singh: ‘Purifying’ Hindi Translanguaging from English and Urdu Emblems: A Sociolinguistic Decolonization of the Hindu Right?

Chapter 3. Pia Lane: The South in the North: Colonization and Decolonization of the Mind

Chapter 4. Conversation with Ellen Cushman

Chapter 5. Alastair Pennycook: From Douglas Firs to Giant Cuttlefish: Reimagining Language Learning

Chapter 6. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo and Dorothy Pokua Agyepong: Making the Secular Sacred: Sociolinguistic Domains and Performance in Christian Worship

Chapter 7. Cristine Severo and Sinfree Makoni: The Relevance of Experience: Decolonial and Southern Indigenous Perspectives of Language

Chapter 8. Alan S.R. Carneiro and Daniel N. Silva: From Anthropophagy to the Anthropocene: On the Challenges of Doing Research in Language and Society in Brazil and the Global South

Chapter 9. Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor: Localizing National Multilingualism in Some Countries in East Africa

Chapter 10. Conversation with Lynn Mario Menezes De Souza

Chapter 11. Sibonile Mpendukana and Christopher Stroud: Thoughts on 'Love' and Linguistic Citizenship in Decolonial (Socio)linguistics

Chapter 12. Marcelyn Oostendorp: ‘Sociolinguistics Maak My Skaam [Sociolinguistics Makes Me Ashamed]’: Humour as Decolonial Methodology

Chapter 13. Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni: Decolonial Praxis and Pedagogy in Sociolinguistics: Concluding Reflections

Chapter 14. Crispin Thurlow: Commentary: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics – A Radical Listening

Chapter 15. Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta: Commentary: Mobile Gazing, On Ethical Viability and Epistemological Sustainability

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Makoni, Sinfree
Sinfree Makoni is Director of African Studies, Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Deumert, Ana
Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. Her research program is located within the broad field of sociolinguistics and has a strong transdisciplinary focus. Her current work explores the use of language and art, especially sound and music, in global political movements as well as the contributions decolonial thought can make to sociolinguistic theory. Recent publications include Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics - Knowledges and Epistemes (2020, with Anne Storch and Nick Shepherd), and From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics (2023, with Sinfree Makoni). She is a recipient of the Neville Alexander Award for the Promotion of Multilingualism (2014) and the Humboldt Research Award (2016).

Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research is located in the broad field of African sociolinguistics and has a strong transdisciplinary focus. She is co-editor of Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship (2022, Multilingual Matters) and Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics: Knowledges and Epistemes (2020, Oxford University Press).

Sinfree Makoni is Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Program in African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA, and is an Extraordinary Professor at North West University and University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. His main research interests are language and politics and Southern Theories. He is co-editor of the Multilingual Matters series Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies.