Southernizing Sociolinguistics Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in Language in the Global South

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza

Introduction

Bassey E. Antia and Sinfree Makoni

Part I: The politics of the constitution of language, and its metalanguage, in the Global South

Chapter 1: Can there be a politics of language? Reflections on language and metalanguage

Christopher Hutton

Chapter 2: Shallow grammar and African American English: Evaluating the master’s tools in linguistics

Arthur K. Spears

Chapter 3: Multilingual socialization and development of multilingualism as a first language: Implications for multilingual education

Ajit K. Mohanty

Chapter 4: Questioning epistemic racism in issues of language studies in Brazil: The case of Pretuguês versus popular Brazilian Portuguese

Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza and Gabriel Nascimento

Chapter 5: Baptism of indigenous languages into an ideology: A decolonial critique of missionary linguistics in Southern Nigeria

Unyierie Idem and Imelda Udoh

Chapter 6: Christian-lects and Islam-lects: On religious inventions of languages

Cristine Severo and Ashraf Abdelhay

Part II: Who gets published in sociolinguistics?

Chapter 7: Black female scholarship matters: Erasure of black African women’s sociolinguistic scholarship

Busi Makoni

Chapter 8: African contributions to four journals of sociolinguistics

Evershed Kwasi Amuzu, Elvis ResCue, Bernard Boakye and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo

Part III: Language in the Global South and the social inscription of difference

Chapter 9: Begging for "authenticity": Language, class and race politics in South Africa

Bongi Bangeni, Nwabisa Bangeni and Stephanie Rudwick

Chapter 10: Mandarin Chinese as the national language and its discontents

Uradyn E. Bulag

Chapter 11: Minoritized youth language in Norwegian media discourse: Surfacing the abyssal line

Rafael Lomeu Gomes and Bente A. Svendsen

Part IV: Learning and the quotidian experience of language in the Global South

Chapter 12: The lexico-semantics of Whiteness and its transactionalization in Black African languages

Bassey E. Antia, Sinfree Makoni and Joseph Igono

Chapter 13: Linguistic governmentality, neoliberalism, and Communicative Language Teaching: Invisibility of indigenous ethnic languages in the multilingual schools in Bangladesh

Shaila Sultana, Nuzhat Tazin Ahmed, Md. Nahid Ferdous Bhuiyan and Md. Shamsul Huda

Chapter 14: Making of an exile: An analytic autobiography

Mari Haneda

Part V: Summing up

Epistolary afterword: Letter to the prince

Bassey E. Antia

Epilogue: Every dog has its day; but the long-time underdog can’t wait any longer for that day!

Kanavillil Rajagopalan

　

Contributors' Biographies

　

　

　

Nana Aba Appiah Amfo

Nana Aba Appiah Amfo is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ghana. Her PhD is from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She works within the broad areas of pragmatics and sociolinguistics, focusing on information structure, grammaticalization, and language use in specific domains. She has recently published in Communication & Medicine and Discourse and Society.

　

　

Ashraf Abdelhay

Ashraf Abdelhay holds a PhD in the field of sociolinguistics from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on issues related to the cultural politics of language, colonial linguistics and southern theory. He has published his research in a number of journals in the field. He currently serves in the editorial boards of International Journal of the Sociology of Language and the Language Policy journal. The current project he is working on is the sociolinguistics of protesting (two volumes, co-edited with Cristine Severo and Sinfree Makoni).

　

　

Nuzhat Tazin Ahmed

Nuzhat Tazin Ahmed, Lecturer in English, Southeast University, Bangladesh graduated in English literature and ELT from the University of Dhaka. Her research interest includes SLA, intercultural communication, gender studies, and learner autonomy. Her research articles were published in the Arts Faculty Journal, University of Dhaka, and other national journals.

　

　

　

Bassey E. Antia

Bassey E. Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. His research interests span across multilingualism, terminology, language and health, the politics of language, and Southern epistemologies. A co-edited volume, Decolonial Voices, Language, and Race, has recently been published (Multilingual Matters, 2022). Previous work (published by John Benjamins) has included a monograph and two co-edited volumes.　

　

　

Bongi Bangeni

Bongi Bangeni is Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. She has published on black students’ transitions to higher education, focusing on writing, language, and identity. Her co-edited book, Negotiating Learning, and Identity in Higher Education: Access, Persistence and Retention (Bloomsbury, 2017) provides a cross-faculty perspective on students’ engagements within the disciplines.

　

　

Nwabisa Bangeni

Nwabisa Bangeni is a lecturer at Stellenbosch University. Her research interests are in narratology, language in literature and a particular interest in Southern African as well as East African literatures. Current doctoral supervisions are on spatiality in Zimbabwean fiction and African diaspora authors’ fictional rewriting of African histories.　

　

　

Md. Nahid Ferdous Bhuiyan

Md. Nahid Ferdous Bhuiyan, Teacher Trainer, National Academy for Education Management, has been in TEFL teacher education and English instruction since 2004. He holds three master's degrees in English, ELT and education. His research interests include TEFL teacher education, marginalized language learners, and ESP. His papers were published in various national journals.

　

　

Bernard Boakye

Bernard Boakye is a tutor at Peki College of Education, Volta Region, Ghana. He holds an MPhil degree in applied linguistics from University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. His research interests are in sociolinguistics, language variation and linguistics of Akan.

　

　

Uradyn E. Bulag

Uradyn E. Bulag is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. His publications include:　Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China's Mongolian Frontier (2010); "Minority Nationalities as Frankenstein’s Monsters? Reshaping ‘the Chinese Nation’ and China’s Quest to Become a ‘Normal Country’," The China Journal 86 (2021).

　

　

Mari Haneda

Mari Haneda is a Professor of Education at the Pennsylvania State University. She investigates educational equity and inclusion issues regarding multilingual students. Her recent publications include: Blair, A., Haneda, M., & Bose, F. (2018). Reimagining English-medium instruction settings as sites of multilingual and multimodal meaning making.　TESOL Quarterly, 52(3), 516-539.

　

　

Md. Shamsul Huda

Md. Shamsul Huda presently works as a teacher trainer at the National Academy for Educational Management (NAEM), Ministry of Education. He has qualifications in both English literature and ELT. His research interest includes teacher education, assessment and multilingualism. His research articles have been published in some national journals.

　

　

Christopher Hutton

Christopher Hutton is Chair Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. His publications include Linguistics and the Third Reich (Routledge, 1999), Race and the Third Reich (Polity Press, 2005),　Word Meaning and Legal Interpretation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and Integrationism and the Self (Routledge, 2019).

　

Unyierie Idem

Unyierie Idem is a professor of English as a second language at Holyoke Community College, Massachusetts, USA. Her interests include second language acquisition, bilingualism/multilingualism, orthography, and language planning/policy. She is the author of Language and the National Question (2002/2017) and co-author of The Orthography of Anaañ (2001).

　

　

Joseph Igono

Joseph Igono is a senior lecturer in the department of French, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in French language and translation. His research interest lies in the interface of translation and human development. He is the principal author of Translation of Selected Igbo Proverbs and Idiomatic Expressions: Implications for Curbing Economic Recession" (2018).

　

　

Evershed Kwasi Amuzu

Evershed Kwasi Amuzu is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Ghana. He pursued PhD in linguistics at the Australian National University. His areas of specialization include sociolinguistics and contact linguistics. He has published in the International Journal of Bilingualism, Journal of Language Contact, Lingua, Multilingua among others.

　

　

Rafael Lomeu Gomes

Rafael Lomeu Gomes is a postdoctoral research fellow at MultiLing - Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, Norway. His recent publications include "Family multilingualism from a southern perspective" (2021, Multilingua) and "Family Language Policy 10 years on" (2018, Multilingual Margins).

　

　

Busi Makoni

Busi Makoni, an African studies faculty member at Pennsylvania State University, is a sociolinguist interested in language and social justice in areas such as immigrant language practices in contexts characterized by quotidian violence, use of gendered language varieties in courtroom settings and the exploitation of women who use such varieties during court proceedings.　　

　

Sinfree Makoni

Sinfree Makoni is professor of African Studies and applied linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. He has held a number of different positions in the United States and Southern Africa. He has published extensively in the areas of language in health, language policy and planning, and decolonial and Southern epistemologies. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Linguistics; and holds a number of honorary appointments in universities in Africa.

　

　

Lynn Mario Menezes de Souza

Lynn Mario is Professor of Language Education at the University of São Paulo. His recent publications include his co-edited volume Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness: the south answers back, Routledge (2019), and "De-universalizing the decolonial: between parentheses and falling skies," co-authored with Ana Duboc in the journal Gragoatá v.26 (2021).

　

　

Ajit K. Mohanty

Ajit Mohanty is a former professor and ICSSR National Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University. A Killam Scholar, Alberta University and Fulbright Professor, Columbia University, Mohanty’s publications include The Multilingual Reality: Living with Languages (2018). An APS Fellow and Fellow of NAOP (India), he developed Multilingual Education Policy for Nepal and Odisha (India).

　

　

Gabriel Nascimento

Gabriel Nascimento is assistant professor at Federal University of Southern Bahia. He holds a PhD in language studies from the University of São Paulo and a MD in applied linguistics from the University of Brasília. His recent publications include "The Unmarked Whiteness of Brazilian Linguistics: From Black-as-Theme to Black-as-Life" (with Joel Windle, 2021) and Linguistic Racism.　

　

　

Kanavillil Rajagopalan

Kanavillil Rajagopalan is a retired Full Professor of Linguistics from the State University at Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He is the author of six books (and another two forthcoming), among which is the edited volume Applied Linguistics in Latin America (John Benjamins, 2005). He has also contributed chapters to several encyclopedias and handbooks.

　

　

Elvis ResCue

Elvis ResCue is a Lecturer in English at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He holds a PhD and MA in applied linguistics (Aston University, UK) and BA in linguistics with English (University of Ghana). He has published in the Ghana Journal of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics Review, among others.

　

　

Stephanie Rudwick

Stephanie Rudwick is a multidisciplinary scholar in African studies at the University of Hradec Králové and an honorary affiliate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her recent research focuses on language and race as seen by her recent monograph on English as a Lingua Franca in South Africa.

　

　

Cristine Severo

Cristine Severo is an associate professor at Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). Recent publications include: The Languaging of Higher Education in the Global South (Routledge, 2022) and Language planning and policy: Ideologies, Ethnicities and semiotic spaces of power (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), both co-edited with Ashraf Abdelhay and Sinfree Makoni.

　

　

Arthur K. Spears

Arthur K. Spears is Presidential Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Emeritus at The City University of New York (The Graduate Center and The City College). His latest book (co-edited) is Languages and Dialects in The U.S.: Focus on Diversity and Linguistics (2014).

　

　

Shalia Sultana

Shaila Sultana, Department of English Language, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, has authored numerous articles and book chapters. She is co-author of Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity (2018). She is also the chief editor of the Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in Bangladesh (2021).

Bente A. Svendsen

Bente A. Svendsen is a professor at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, and Adjunct Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her main publications include the paper "The dynamics of citizen sociolinguistics" (2018) in Journal of Sociolinguistics and the book Multilingualism - a blessing and a burden (2021, in Norwegian).

　

　

Imelda Udoh

Imelda Udoh is a professor of linguistics and Nigerian languages, at the University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria. She has done extensive research on the documentation and description of Nigerian languages, and she has many publications in this area, like The Languages of Southern Nigeria: A Geopolitical profile, published in 2019.

　

　

　

　

　

Biography

Bassey E. Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. His research interests span across multilingualism, terminology, language and health, the politics of language, and Southern epistemologies. A co-edited volume, Decolonial Voices, Language, and Race, appeared in 2022 (Multilingual Matters). Previous work has included a monograph and two co-edited volumes.

Sinfree Makoni is Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. He has held a number of different positions in the United States and Southern Africa. He has published extensively in the areas of language in health, language policy and planning, and decolonial and Southern epistemologies. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Linguistics and holds a number of honorary appointments in universities in Africa.