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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Decolonizing Linguistics, the companion volume to Inclusion in Linguistics, is designed to uncover and intervene in the history and ongoing legacy of colonization and colonial thinking in linguistics and related fields. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline.The introduction to Decolonizing Linguistics theorizes decolonization as the process of centering Black, Native, and Indigenous perspectives, describes the extensive dialogic and collaborative process through which the volume was developed, and lays out key principles for decolonizing linguistic research and teaching. The twenty chapters cover a wide range of languages and linguistic contexts (e.g., Bantu languages, Creoles, Dominican Spanish, Francophone Africa, Zapotec) as well as various disciplines and subfields (applied linguistics, communication, historical linguistics, language documentation and revitalization/reclamation, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax). Contributors address such topics as refusing settler-colonial practices and centering community goals in research on Indigenous languages; decolonizing research partnerships between the Global South and the Global North; and prioritizing Black Diasporic perspectives in linguistics. The volume's conclusion lays out specific actions that linguists can take through research, teaching, and institutional structures to refuse coloniality in linguistics and to move the field toward a decolonized future.
Table of Contents
PrefaceIntroduction: Decolonizing LinguisticsAnne H. Charity Hudley, Ignacio L. Montoya, Christine Mallinson, and Mary BucholtzPart 1: Decolonizing Linguistics and the Academy1. Manifestations of Colonialism in Linguistics and Opportunities for Decolonization Through RefusalIgnacio L. Montoya2. Racialization, Language Science, and Nineteenth-Century AnthropometricsMargaret Thomas3. The Colonial Geography of Linguistics: A View from the CaribbeanBen Braithwaite and Kristian Ali4. We Like the Idea of You But Not the Reality of You: The Whole Scholar as Disruptor of Default Colonial Practices in LinguisticsNict? Fuller Medina5. Apolitical Linguistics Doesn't Exist, and It Shouldn't: Developing a Black Feminist Praxis Toward Political TransparencyAris Moreno Clemons6. Unpacking Experiences of Racism in European Applied LinguisticsKamran Khan7. Centering Race and Multilingualism in French LinguisticsMaya Angela Smith8. Decolonizing (Psycho)linguistics Means Dropping the Language Gap RhetoricMegan FigueroaPart 2: Decolonizing Methods of Teaching and Research9. From Gatekeeping to Inclusion in the Introductory Linguistics Curriculum: Decolonizing Our Teaching, Our Psyches, Our Institutions, and Our Field Lynnette Arnold10. Decolonizing Historical Linguistics in the Classroom and BeyondClaire Bowern and Rikker Dockum11. Towards a Decolonial Syntax: Research, Teaching, PublishingHannah Gibson, Kyle Jerro, Savithry Namboodiripad, and Kristina Riedel12. Decolonising Methodologies Through Collaboration: Reflections on Partnerships and Funding Flows from Working Between the South and the NorthRajendra Chetty, Hannah Gibson, and Colin Reilly13. Open Methods: Decolonizing (or Not) Research Methods in LinguisticsDan Villarreal and Lauren Collister14. Revitalizing Attitudes Toward Creole LanguagesAriana Bancu, Joy P. G. Peltier, Felicia Bisnath, Danielle Burgess, Sophia Eakins, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Moira Saltzman, Yourdanis Sedarous, Alicia Stevers, and Marlyse BaptistaPart 3: Decolonizing Research by Centering Community and Activism15. Solidarity and Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic PerspectiveAnne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, Kahdeidra Mon?t Martin, Aris Moreno Clemons, L. J. Randolph Jr., Mary Bucholtz, Kendra Calhoun, Shenika Hankerson, Joy P. G. Peltier, Jamie A. Thomas, Deana Lacy McQuitty, and Kara Seidel16. Growing a Bigger Linguistics Through a Zapotec Agenda: The Ticha ProjectMay Helena Plumb, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Mois?s Garc?a Guzm?n, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, and Felipe H. Lopez17. Decolonizing Creolistics Through Popular Culture: The Case of DancehallRashana Vikara Lydner 18. Prioritizing Community Partners' Goals in Projects to Support Indigenous Language RevitalizationKatherine J. Riestenberg, Ally Freemond, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, and Jonathan N. Washington19. Promoting Decolonized Classrooms Through an Introductory Linguistics Course for Future Teachers in Alaska?ve Ryan, Matt Ford, and Giovanna Wilde20. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Language Activism from Community Colleges: Linguistics Meets Communication StudiesCarlos de Cuba, Poppy Slocum, and Laura SpinuConclusion: Decolonizing LinguisticsAnne H. Charity Hudley, Ignacio L. Montoya, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz
