Colonial and decolonial linguistics : knowledges and epistemes /

This volume offers a detailed exploration of coloniality in the discipline of linguistics, with case studies drawn from across the world. The chapters provide a nuanced account of the coloniality of linguistics at the level of knowledge and disciplinary practice, and expand their discussion to imagi...

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Other Authors: Deumert, Ana (Editor), Storch, Anne (Editor), Shepherd, Nick, 1967- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Colonial linguistics
  • then and now / Anne Storch
  • pt. I IN THE MIDST
  • 2.Northern perspectives on language and society in India / S. Imtiaz Hasnain
  • 3.Transcending the colonial? Colonial linguistics and George Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India / Rajend Mesthrie
  • 4.Using lusitanization and creolization as frameworks to analyse historical and contemporary Cape Verde language policy and planning / Sinfree B. Makoni
  • 5.On colonization and `awesome materiality': A commentary / Nicholas G. Faraclas
  • pt. II ECHOES, TRACES
  • 6.Tracing (de)colonial options in German philology around 1900: The two faces of Hermann Paul (1846
  • 1921) / Ingo H. Warnke
  • 7.War and grammar: Acoustic recordings with African prisoners of the First World War (1915
  • 18) / Anette Hoffmann
  • 8.Accomplished works and facts: The family tree project of Africanistics / Anne Storch
  • 9.Linguistics and language in the global economy of knowledge: A commentary / Raewyn Connell
  • pt. III ON THE POETICS OF ICONOCLASM
  • 10.Researching endangered languages: Critical reflections on field and documentary linguistics / Bettina Migge
  • 11.The missionary in the theatre of linguistics: Is a decolonial linguistics possible? / Ana Deumert
  • 12.Language ideology and policy in a colonial and postcolonial context: The case of Egypt / Reem Bassiouney
  • 13.The decolonizer iconoclast: A commentary / Ricardo Roque
  • pt. IV SOUNDS OF RESISTANCE
  • 14.Jamaican postcolonial writing practices and metalinguistic discourses as a challenge to established norms and standards / Andrea Hollington
  • 15.Language ideologies and attitudes towards Arabic in contemporary Iran / Pegah Faghiri
  • 16.Decolonizing decolonization? Desiring pure language in Mali / Katharina Monz
  • 17.Colonial creep / Christopher Stroud
  • 18.Decolonial linguistics as paradigm shift: A commentary / Salikoko S. Mufwene
  • pt. V CONCLUSION: ON DECOLONIALITY
  • 19.The grammar of decoloniality / Nick Shepherd
  • 20.Walking decolonially with Nick Shepherd / Walter D. Mignolo.