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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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.