Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics: Knowledges and Epistemes

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This wide-ranging volume offers a detailed exploration of coloniality in the discipline of linguistics, with case studies drawn from Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. Colonial meanings and legacies have returned to the forefront of many academic fields in recent years and linguistics, like several other disciplines, has had an ambivalent relationship with its own histories of practice in colonial and postcolonial worlds. The implications of these histories are still felt today, as colonial paradigms of knowledge production continue to shape both academic linguistic practices and non-specialist discussion of language and culture. The chapters in this volume adopt a range of different conceptual frameworks - including postcolonial theory, southern theory, and decolonial thinking - to provide a nuanced account of the coloniality of linguistics at the level of knowledge and disciplinary practice; crucially, the contributors also expand their investigations beyond this ambivalent inheritance to imagine a decolonial linguistics. The volume will be of interest to all linguists looking to critically assess their own practices and to engage with debates at the cutting-edge of their discipline, particularly in the areas of sociolinguistics, field linguistics, typology, and linguistic anthropology, as well as to those outside the discipline engaging with questions of coloniality. Cover Title_Pages Contents Preface List_of_Figures About_the_Contributors IntroductionColonial_linguisticsthen_and_now Part_I_In_The_Midst Northern_perspectives_on_language_and_society_in_India Transcending_the_colonialColonial_linguistics_and_George_Griersons_Linguistic_Survey_of_India Using_lusitanization_and_creolization_as_frameworks_to_analyse_historical_and_contemporary_Cape_Verde_language_policy_and_planning On_colonization_and_awesome_materialityA_commentary Part_II_ECHOES_TRACES Tracing_decolonial_options_in_German_philology_around_1900The_two_faces_of_Hermann_Paul_18461921 War_and_grammarAcoustic_recordings_with_African_prisoners_of_the_First_World_War_191518 Accomplished_works_and_factsThe_family_tree_project_of_Africanistics Linguistics_and_language_in_the_global_economy_of_knowledgeA_commentary Part_III_On_the_Poetics_of_Iconoclasm Researching_endangered_languagesCritical_reflections_on_field_and_documentary_linguistics The_missionary_in_the_theatre_of_linguisticsIs_a_decolonial_linguistics_possible Language_ideology_and_policy_in_a_colonial_and_postcolonial_contextThe_case_of_Egypt The_decolonizer_iconoclastA_commentary Part_IV_Sounds_of_Resistance Jamaican_postcolonial_writing_practices_and_metalinguistic_discourses_as_a_challenge_to_established_norms_and_standards Language_ideologies_and_attitudes_towards_Arabic_in_contemporary_Iran Decolonizing_decolonization_Desiring_pure_language_in_Mali Colonial_creep Decolonial_linguistics_as_paradigm_shiftA_commentary The_grammar_of_decoloniality Walking_decolonially_with_Nick_Shepherd References Index