From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics

From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics

by Ana Deumert and Prof. Sinfree Makoni
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/07/2023

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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.

ISBN:
9781788926584
9781788926584
Category:
Sociolinguistics
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-07-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Channel View Publications

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