Critical Sociolinguistics : Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments / edited by Alfonso Del Percio and Mi-Cha Flubacher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flubacher, Mi-Cha, editor.

Percio, Alfonso Del, editor.

Series:

Advances in Sociolinguistics.

Advances in Sociolinguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

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Summary:

Providing a series of crucial debates on language, power, difference and social inequality, this volume traces developments and dissonances in critical sociolinguistics. Eminent and emerging academic figures from around the world collaboratively engage with the work of Monica Heller, offering insights into the politics and power formations that surround knowledge of language and society. Challenging disciplinary power dynamics in critical sociolinguistics, this book is an experiment testing new ways of producing knowledge on language and society. Critically discussing central sociolinguistic concepts from critique to political economy, labor to media, education to capitalism, each chapter features a number of scholars offering their distinct social and political perspectives on the place played by language in the social fabric. Through its theoretical, epistemological, and methodological breadth, the volume foregrounds political alliances in how language is known and explored by scholars writing from specific geopolitical spaces that come with diverse political struggles and dynamics of power. Allowing for a diversity of genres, debates, controversies, fragments and programmatic manifestos, the volume prefigures a new mode of knowledge production that multiplies perspectives and starts practicing the more inclusive, just and equal worlds that critical sociolinguists envision.

Contents:

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Experiment in Critical Sociolinguistic Knowledge Production: An Introduction to the book, Alfonso Del Percio (University College London, UK) and Mi-Cha Flubacher (Institute of Linguistic Competence, Switzerland) Part I: Lenses and Ontologies 2. Critical Sociolinguistics and the Imperative to Decolonise Language Studies, Finex Ndhlovu (University of New England, Australia), Emmanuel Ngue Um (University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon) and Virginia Unamuno (Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina) 3. History, James Costa (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, France), Daniela Lauria (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina, Argentina), Beatriz Lorente (University of Bern, Switzerland)and Zorana Sokolovska (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) 4. Ethnography, Adrienne Lo (University of Waterloo, Canada) and Lindsay Bell (Western University, Canada) 5. Discourse: A Map in Constant Redrawing, Elisabeth Barakos (University of Vienna, Austria), Juan Eduardo Bonnin (Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina) and Veronica Pajaro (University of Agder, Norway) 6. Political Economy as a Framework for Sociolinguistics, Maria Sabate-Dalmau (University of Lleida, Spain)and Mi-Cha Flubacher (Institute of Linguistic Competence, Switzerland) 7. Let's Be Concrete: Language, Revolution, Materiality, Governmentality, Abdelhay Ashraf (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar), Alfonso Del Percio(University College London, UK) and Alistair Pennycook (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Part II: Apparatuses and Instantiations 8. Language, Power and the State, Alfonso Del Percio (University College London, UK), Kyoko Motobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan), He Shanhua (Yangzhou University, China), Julie Tay (Lancaster University, UK) and Catherine Tebaldi (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) 9. Mobilities, (Post-)Mationalism and Trajectories Across Linguistic Borders, Maria Rosa Garrido (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) and Michelle Daveluy (Universite Laval, Canada) 10. Power and Critique, Eva Codo (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) and David Karlander (Uppsala University, Sweden) 11. Capital(ism) in Our Lives, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA), Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Sebastian Muth (Lancaster University, UK) and Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore, Singapore) 12. Work/Labour, Kori Allan, Jillian Cavanaugh (Brooklyn College, USA), Jonas Hassemer (University of Vienna, Austria) and Kamilla Kraft (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 13. Media Discourse and the Public Sphere: A Transnational Reflection on Truckers' Protests during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Emilie Urbain (Carleton University, Canada) and Branca Falabella Fabricio (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 14. The Battleground of Language and Education: A Conversation Among Four Women Academics, Martina Zimmermann (University of Teacher Education (HEP Vaud) Switzerland), Jennifer B. Delfino (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA), Andrea Sunyol I Garcia-Moreno (UCL's Institute of Education, UK) and Mompoloki Bagwasi (University of Botswana, Botswana) Part III: Processes of Differentiations 15. Discursive Spaces of Identity, Lilian Lem Atanga, Melissa Moyer (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain), Miguel Perez-Milans (University College London, UK), Shanthini Pillai (UKM, Malaysia) and Aileen O. Salonga (University of the Philippines, the Philippines) 16. Authentic Problems: Critical Reflections on Theorizing Authenticity, Sara C. Brennan (Universite Toulouse Capitole, France), Elaine Chun (University of South Carolina, USA), Kati Dlaske (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland), Martha Sif Karrebaek (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Harshana Rambukwella (NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) 17. Working the Field Through Different Lenses: The Interwoven Narrative of Four Sociolinguists Who Work On Language Minoritization, Isabelle LeBlanc (Universite de Moncton, Canada), Annette Boudreau LeBlanc (Universite de Moncton, Canada), Brigitta Busch (University of Vienna, Austria) and Claudine Moise (Universite Grenoble Alpes, France) 18. Ideology, Practice and Political Economy in the Study of "Bilingualism", Virginia Zavala (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru) and Ruanni Tupas (University College London, UK) 19. Short Stories on Social Inequalities, Alexandre Duchene (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Luisa Martin Rojo (Universidad Autonoma, Spain), Mireille McLaughlin, Prem Phyak (Columbia University, USA) and Sari Pietikainen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) Part IV: Prefigurations and Utopias 20. Critique, Katy Highet (University of the West of Scotland, UK), Sinfree Makoni (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Bonnie Urciuoli (Hamilton College, USA) and Jacqueline Urla (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) 21. Paradoxes of Activism in Sociolinguistics: Politics, Research, and Partisanship, Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana (Open University, Netherlands), Nicole Dolowy-Rybinska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) and Joan Pujolar-Cos (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) 22. Teaching Water, While the World is on Fire, Bonnie McElhinny (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada) Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781350293557

1350293555

9781350293540

1350293547

9781350293533

1350293539

OCLC:

1457639312