Full Description
This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern sociolinguistics. It showcases voices from the Global South that substitute alternative and complementary narrations of the link between language and society for canonical renditions of the field.
Drawing on Southern epistemologies, the volume critically explores the entangled histories of racial colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in perpetuating prejudice in and around language as a means of encouraging the conceptualization of alternative epistemological futures for sociolinguistics. The book features work by both established and emerging scholars, and is organized around four parts: The politics of the constitution of language, and its metalanguage, in the Global South; Who gets published in sociolinguistics? Language in the Global South and the social inscription of difference; and Learning and the quotidian experience of language in the Global South.
This book will be of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, critical race and ethnic studies, and philosophy of knowledge.
Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza
Introduction
Bassey E. Antia and Sinfree Makoni
Part I: The politics of the constitution of language, and its metalanguage, in the Global South
Chapter 1: Can there be a politics of language? Reflections on language and metalanguage
Christopher Hutton
Chapter 2: Shallow grammar and African American English: Evaluating the master's tools in linguistics
Arthur K. Spears
Chapter 3: Multilingual socialization and development of multilingualism as a first language: Implications for multilingual education
Ajit K. Mohanty
Chapter 4: Questioning epistemic racism in issues of language studies in Brazil: The case of Pretuguês versus popular Brazilian Portuguese
Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza and Gabriel Nascimento
Chapter 5: Baptism of indigenous languages into an ideology: A decolonial critique of missionary linguistics in South-Eastern Nigeria
Unyierie Idem and Imelda Udoh
Chapter 6: Christian-lects and Islam-lects: On religious inventions of languages
Cristine Severo and Ashraf Abdelhay
Part II: Who gets published in sociolinguistics?
Chapter 7: Black female scholarship matters: Erasure of black African women's sociolinguistic scholarship
Busi Makoni
Chapter 8: African contributions to four journals of sociolinguistics
Evershed Kwasi Amuzu, Elvis ResCue, Bernard Boakye and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo
Part III: Language in the Global South and the social inscription of difference
Chapter 9: Begging for "authenticity": Language, class and race politics in South Africa
Bongi Bangeni, Nwabisa Bangeni and Stephanie Rudwick
Chapter 10: Mandarin Chinese as the national language and its discontents
Uradyn E. Bulag
Chapter 11: Minoritized youth language in Norwegian media discourse: Surfacing the abyssal line
Rafael Lomeu Gomes and Bente A. Svendsen
Part IV: Learning and the quotidian experience of language in the Global South
Chapter 12: The lexico-semantics of Whiteness and its transactionalization in Black African languages
Bassey E. Antia, Sinfree Makoni and Joseph Igono
Chapter 13: Linguistic governmentality, neoliberalism, and Communicative Language Teaching: Invisibility of indigenous ethnic languages in the multilingual schools in Bangladesh
Shaila Sultana, Nuzhat Tazin Ahmed, Md. Nahid Ferdous Bhuiyan and Md. Shamsul Huda
Chapter 14: Making of an exile: An analytic authoethnography
Mari Haneda
Part V: Summing up
Epistolary afterword: Letter to the prince
Bassey E. Antia
Epilogue: Every dog has its day; but the long-time underdog can't wait any longer for that day!
Kanavillil Rajagopalan
