From southern theory to decolonizing sociolinguistics : Voices, questions and alternatives / edited by Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deumert, Ana, editor.

Makoni, Sinfree, editor.

Series:

Studies in knowledge production and participation ; 5.

Studies in knowledge production and participation ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Decolonization.

Knowledge, Theory of--Developing countries.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Multilingual Matters, [2023]

Summary:

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.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/DEUMER6560

Contents

Contributors

Preface

1 Introduction: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics

2 'Purifying' Hindi Translanguaging from English and Urdu Emblems: A Sociolinguistic Decolonization of the Hindu Right?

3 The South in the North: Colonization and Decolonization of the Mind

4 Conversation with Ellen Cushman

5 From Douglas Firs to Giant Cuttlefish: Reimagining Language Learning

6 Making the Secular Sacred: Sociolinguistic Domains and Performance in Christian Worship

7 The Relevance of Experience: Decolonial and Southern Indigenous Perspectives of Language

8 From Anthropophagy to the Anthropocene: On the Challenges of Doing Research in Language and Society in Brazil and the Global South

9 Localizing National Multilingualism in Some Countries in East Africa

10 Conversation with Lynn Mario Menezes De Souza

11 Thoughts on 'Love' and Linguistic Citizenship in Decolonial (Socio)linguistics

12 'Sociolinguistics Maak My Skaam [Sociolinguistics Makes Me Ashamed]': Humour as Decolonial Methodology

13 Decolonial Praxis and Pedagogy in Sociolinguistics: Concluding Reflections

14 Commentary: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics - A Radical Listening

15 Commentary: Mobile Gazing. On Ethical Viability and Epistemological Sustainability

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781788926577 (electronic book)

9781788926577

1788926579

OCLC:

1388490792