Language and Decolonisation

Language and Decolonisation is the first collection to bring together views from across scholarly communities that are committed to the decolonisation agenda in language study. It is essential for advanced students, scholars and researchers of language, culture, sociolinguistics, decolonial studies, racial studies, and related areas.

Language and Decolonisation is the first collection to bring together views from across scholarly communities that are committed to the agenda of decolonising knowledge in language study. Edited by leading figures in the field, the chapters offer new insights on how 'decolonising' can be adopted as a methodology for charting the next steps in solving practical language-related problems in educational and related social policy areas. Divided into two sections, the book covers the coloniality of language, the materiality of culture and colonial scripts, the decolonisation imperative, multilingualism discourse and decolonisation, and decolonising languages in public discourse. With 20 chapters authored by experts from across the globe, this pioneering collection is an essential reference and resource for advanced students, scholars, and researchers of language and culture, sociolinguistics, decolonial studies, racial studies, and related areas.

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Finex Ndhlovu is Associate Professor of Language in Society in the School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences at the University of New England, Australia. Finex's latest major publication is Pan-African Integration from Below: Language, Publics, Culture.

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor/Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His latest major publication is Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South.

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Language and Decolonisation is the first collection to bring together views from across scholarly communities that are committed to the decolonisation agenda in language study. It is essential for advanced students, scholars and researchers of language, culture, sociolinguistics, decolonial studies, racial studies, and related areas.

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Language and Decolonisation is the first collection to bring together views from across scholarly communities that are committed to the decolonisation agenda in language study. It is essential for advanced students, scholars and researchers of language, culture, sociolinguistics, decolonial studies, racial studies, and related areas.

Inhalt

Foreword

Christopher Stroud

1. Introduction: Reframing the Struggle for New Decolonial Futures

Finex Ndhlovu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Part 1: Theories, Concepts, Debates

2. Multilingualisms in the Global Souths: Shaping Language Scholarship in the Global Norths

Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook

3. Epistemic Reconstitution of Multilingualism: Disrupting and Levelling of Linguistic Hierarchies of Power

Felix Banda and Kelvin Mambwe

4. Decolonising the Linguistic Encirclement of Africa

Finex Ndhlovu and Edwin Chris Odhiambo

5. Niche Languages: Decolonising Language Use Through Domain Specialisation and Linguistic Harmony

Mohammed Zahid Akter and Arvind Iyengar

6. Decolonising Competency-based Assessment through Autoethnographic Approaches

Linda McIntosh

7. Written into Being: Colonial Language Epistemologies and the Graphocentric Straitjacket

Arvind Iyengar

8. Interrogating Trickster Discourse of Coloniality in Regimes of Language Testing

Finex Ndhlovu

Part 2: Critical Reflections, Empirical Studies, Applications

9. Decolonising Languages and Literacies in Education: The Case of Kenya

Rose Njoki Mutuota and Mutuota Kigotho

10. Situating Decolonisation of Languages and Literacies Education in the South Pacific

Prashneel Ravisan Goundar

11. Unsettling Coloniality of Language: English in Contexts Colonized by Other Languages

Hamza R'boul

12. From Spark to Flame: Decolonising Linguistics and the Creation of First Nations Medical Media

Glenys Collard and Celeste Rodríguez Louro

13. Coloniality and Australian Indigenous Language Interpreting in Legal Settings

Dima Rusho

14. The Liberated Libretto: Engaging the Operatic Voice and the Multilingual Modes of Singing

Paul Smith

15. From Linguistic Resistance to Re-existence: Pretuguês as an Anti-racist Perspective on Language

Joel Windle and Gabriel Nascimento

16. From Post-Revolutionary Glottophobia to The Bill Against Accent Discrimination: France's Tortuous Journey Towards Linguistic Diversity

Valentina Gosetti

17. On the Invisibility of Russian Imperialism: Russian Studies in the West

Tomasz Kamusella

18. KwaMunyasa: Problematising Coloniality of Citizenship in Zimbabwe

Aaron Sigauke

19. Decolonising African Migrant Languages in the Australian Market Economy

Vera Williams Tetteh and Sithembinkosi Dube

20. Conclusion: Revisiting the True Purpose of Decolonizing Knowledge

Finex Ndhlovu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Afterword: Decoloniality and the Politics of Southern Voices

Cristine severo and Ashraf Abdelhay