Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness: The South Answers Back

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This volume provides a new perspective on prevailing discourses on translanguaging and multilingualism by looking at ‘glocal’ languages, local languages which have been successfully "globalized". Focusing on European languages recreated in Latin America, the book features examples from languages underexplored in the literature, including Brazilian Portuguese, Amerinidian poetics, and English, Spanish, Portuguese outside Europe, as a basis for advocating for an approach to language education rooted in critical pedagogy and post-colonial perspectives and countering hegemonic theories of globalization. While rooted in a discussion of the South, the book offers a fresh voice in current debates on language education that will be of broader interest to students and scholars across disciplines, including language education, multilingualism, cultural studies, and linguistic anthropology. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Glocal Languages, the South Answering Back SECTION I Glocal Languages—Theoretical Background 1 Glocal Languages, Coloniality and Globalization From Below 2 Glocal Languages Beyond Post-Colonialism: The Metaphorical North and South in the Geographical North and South SECTION II Indigenous Languages as Glocal Languages 3 Glocalism Now and Then: The De-Colonial Turn of Guarani, Portuguese and Spanish 4 Reshuffling Conceptual Cards: What Counts as Language in Lowland Indigenous South America SECTION III Portuguese as Glocal Language 5 The Imaginary in Portuguese Language Perceptions in Academia: (Mis)directions Between the Local and the Global 6 The Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project: Contributions Towards Knowledge, Teaching and Disclosure of Brazilian Portuguese SECTION IV Spanish as Glocal Language 7 Comparisons Between Spanish and Portuguese: Proposals for University Teaching 8 Multiculturalism and Glocal Languages: The Impact of Cultural Mobility in Spanish Teaching and Learning in Southern Brazil SECTION V English as Glocal Language 9 English (Mis)education as an Alternative to Challenge English Hegemony: A Geopolitical Debate 10 Teaching English to Undergraduate Students in a Brazilian University: Thinking Glocally Conclusion: Towards Globalization From Below Contributors Index