From southern theory to decolonizing sociolinguistics : voices, questions and alternatives / edited by Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni. - xiv, 277 pages ; 24 cm. - Studies in knowledge production and participation ; 5 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics / Ana Deumert & Sinfree Makoni -- ‘Purifying’ Hindi Translanguaging from English and Urdu Emblems / Jaspal Naveel Singh -- The South in the North / Pia Lane -- Conversation with Ellen Cushman -- From Douglas Firs to Giant Cuttlefish / Alastair Pennycook -- Making the Secular Sacred / Nana Aba Appiah Amfo & Dorothy Pokua Agyepong -- The Relevance of Experience / Cristine Severo & Sinfree Makoni -- From Anthropophagy to the Anthropocene / Alan S. R. Carneiro & Daniel N. Silva -- Localizing National Multilingualism in East Africa / Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor -- Conversation with Lynn Mario Menezes de Souza -- Thoughts on ‘Love’ and Linguistic Citizenship / Sibonile Mpendukana & Christopher Stroud -- ‘Sociolinguistics Maak My Skaam’: Humour as Decolonial Methodology / Marcelyn Oostendorp -- Decolonial Praxis and Pedagogy / Ana Deumert & Sinfree Makoni -- Commentary: A Radical Listening / Crispin Thurlow -- Commentary: Mobile Gazing and Epistemological Sustainability / Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta -- Index

"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"--

9781788926553

2023007188


Sociolinguistics.
Decolonization.
Knowledge, Theory of--Developing countries.


Essays.

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