From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics

Description

Invites readers to reflect on decolonization and southern theory in new ways and to imagine what a better version of sociolinguistics might look like

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.

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

Sujets

• Disciplines
• Language Arts
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Linguistics
• Decolonization
• Professional
• Postgraduate education
• General officer
• Sociolinguistics
• General
• Research
• Postgraduate

Informations

• Publié par: Channel View Publications
• Date de parution: 07 juillet 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781788926584
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics
STUDIES IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND PARTICIPATION
Series Editors : Mary Jane Curry , University of Rochester, USA and Theresa Lillis , The Open University, UK
Questions about the relationships among language and other semiotic resources (such as image, film/video, sound) and knowledge production, participation and distribution are increasingly coming to the fore in the context of debates about globalisation, multilingualism, and new technologies. Much of the existing work published on knowledge production has focused on formal academic/scientific knowledge; this knowledge is beginning to be produced and communicated via a much wider range of genres, modes and media including, for example, blogs, wikis and Twitter feeds, which have created new ways of producing and communicating knowledge, as well as opening up new ways of participating. Fast-moving shifts in these domains prompt the need for this series which aims to explore facets of knowledge production including: what is counted as knowledge, how it is recognised and rewarded, and who has access to producing, distributing and using knowledge(s). One of the key aims of the series is to include work by scholars located outside the ‘centre’, and to include work written in innovative styles and formats.
All books in this series are externally peer-reviewed.
Full details of all the books in this series and of all our other publications can be found on http://www.multilingual-matters.com , or by writing to Multilingual Matters, St Nicholas House, 31-34 High Street, Bristol, BS1 2AW, UK.
Editorial Board
Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg, Germany
Karen Bennett, Universidade Nova, Portugal
Rebecca Black, University of California, USA
Sally Burgess , Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
Paula Carlino, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Christine Casanave, Temple University, USA
Christiane Donohue, Dartmouth College, USA
Guillaume Gentil, Carleton University, Canada
Bruce Horner, University of Louisville, USA
Dawang Huang, University of Ningbo, China
Luisa Martín Rojo, Universidad Autonoma, Spain
Carolyn McKinney, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Françoise Salager-Meyer, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela
Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sue Starfield, University of New South Wales, Australia
Christine Tardy, Arizona State University, USA
Lucia Thesen, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Other books in the series
Global Academic Publishing - Policies, Perspectives and Pedagogies
Mary Jane Curry and Theresa Lillis (eds)
Grassroots Literacy and the Written Record - A Textual History of Asbestos Activism in South Africa
John Trimbur
Decoloniality, Language and Literacy - Conversations with Teacher Educators
Carolyn McKinney and Pam Christie (eds)
Digital Genres in Academic Knowledge Production and Communication - Perspectives and Practices
María José Luzón and Carmen Pérez-Llantada
STUDIES IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND PARTICIPATION: 5
From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics
Voices, Questions and Alternatives
Edited by Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
Bristol • Jackson
DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/DEUMER6560
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Title: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics: Voices, Questions and Alternatives/Edited by Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni.
Description: Bristol; Jackson : Multilingual Matters, [2023] | Series: Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation: 5 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This book seeks to imagine a decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are firmly grounded in southern approaches to knowledge production, and invite us to begin to decolonize ourselves and to rethink normative assumptions about everything from academic writing to research methods and language teaching”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023007188 (print) | LCCN 2023007189 (ebook) | ISBN 9781788926560 (hardback) | ISBN 9781788926553 (paperback) | ISBN 9781788926584 (epub) | ISBN 9781788926577 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Sociolinguistics. | Decolonization. | Knowledge, Theory of—Developing countries. | LCGFT: Essays.
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Contents
Contributors
Preface
1 Introduction: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics
Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni
2 ‘Purifying’ Hindi Translanguaging from English and Urdu Emblems: A Sociolinguistic Decolonization of the Hindu Right?
Jaspal Naveel Singh
3 The South in the North: Colonization and Decolonization of the Mind
Pia Lane
4 Conversation with Ellen Cushman
5 From Douglas Firs to Giant Cuttlefish: Reimagining Language Learning
Alastair Pennycook
6 Making the Secular Sacred: Sociolinguistic Domains and Performance in Christian Worship
Nana Aba Appiah Amfo and Dorothy Pokua Agyepong
7 The Relevance of Experience: Decolonial and Southern Indigenous Perspectives of Language
Cristine Severo and Sinfree Makoni
8 From Anthropophagy to the Anthropocene: On the Challenges of Doing Research in Language and Society in Brazil and the Global South
Alan S.R. Carneiro and Daniel N. Silva
9 Localizing National Multilingualism in Some Countries in East Africa
Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor
10 Conversation with Lynn Mario Menezes De Souza
11 Thoughts on ‘Love’ and Linguistic Citizenship in Decolonial (Socio)linguistics
Sibonile Mpendukana and Christopher Stroud
12 ‘Sociolinguistics Maak My Skaam [Sociolinguistics Makes Me Ashamed]’: Humour as Decolonial Methodology
Marcelyn Oostendorp
13 Decolonial Praxis and Pedagogy in Sociolinguistics: Concluding Reflections
Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni
14 Commentary:From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics – A Radical Listening
Crispin Thurlow
15 Commentary: Mobile Gazing. On Ethical Viability and Epistemological Sustainability
Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta
Index
Contributors
Nana Aba Appiah Amfo is Professor of Linguistics and Vice ­Chancellor of the University of Ghana. She holds a PhD from the Norwegian ­University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include ­multilingualism and language use in specific domains such as health, religion, politics and migration. Current research projects include ­documenting trends and transitions in sociolinguistic studies in postcolonial Africa, and ­institutional crisis communication. Her recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Cognitive Semantics and the International Journal of the Sociology of Language. She has also recently published a book chapter in Southernizing Sociolinguistics: Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in Language in the Global South (Routledge).
Dorothy Pokua Agyepong is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana. She holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research interests include semantics and pragmatics of African languages, syntax, gesture studies and the sociolinguistics of urban youth (contact) languages. Her current research projects investigate the semantics and pragmatics of separation events, and the effect of age and culture on co-speech gestures in Asante-Twi oral narratives. Some of her works have appeared in Nordic Journal of Linguistics (NJAS), Journal of West African Languages (JWAL), Discourse and Society , Sociolinguistic Studies and the Contemporary Journal of African Studies . A recent book chapter is published in Urban Contact Dialect and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South (Routledge).
Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta has been Professor-Chair in Education at Örebro and Jönköping universities in Sweden since 2007, and has been visiting professor at universities in Italy and India. Her research is specifically multidisciplinary. It deals broadly with issues pertaining to communication, identity, culture and learning from ethnographically framed, multi-scalar, sociocultural and decolonial framings. She has been the scientific head of the research environment Communication, Culture and Diversity since the late 1990s, and has led large-scale externally funded research schools and projects. In 2016, together with the theatre sector, she initiated the Participation and Inclusion think-tank DoIT. She is multilingual in spoken, signed and written languages.
Alan Silvio Ribeiro Carneiro is an Assistant Professor of Langua