Broschiertes Buch

From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics

Voices, Questions and Alternatives

Herausgeber: Deumert, Ana; Makoni, Sinfree

Beschreibung

This book seeks to imagine a decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are firmly grounded in southern approaches to knowledge production, and invite us to begin to decolonize ourselves and to rethink normative assumptions about everything from academic writing to research methods and language teaching.

Autor

Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research is located in the broad field of African sociolinguistics and has a strong transdisciplinary focus. She is co-editor of Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship (2022, Multilingual Matters) and Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics: Knowledges and Epistemes (2020, Oxford University Press). Sinfree Makoni is Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Program in African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA, and is an Extraordinary Professor at North West University and University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. His main research interests are language and politics and Southern Theories. He is co-editor of the Multilingual Matters series Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation
• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781788926553
• ISBN-10: 1788926552
• Artikelnr.: 67136012