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This book explores the ways in which language is understood, and how linguistic theories - and the idea of language as an object - fail to represent a reality that is inherently multi- and trans-. It offers a glimpse of a decolonial linguistics that centres entanglement - between the North and South and between the personal and the theoretical.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sinfree Makoni is a Professor in Applied Linguistics and African Studies and Director of African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He holds Extraordinary Professorship, Visiting Professor and Researcher positions at several South African institutions: North-West University, Nelson Mandela University, University of the Western Cape and University of Zululand.
Unyierie Idem is a Professor in the Academic ESL Department, Holyoke Community College, USA.
Edwin Appah Dartey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Applied Linguistics and the African Studies Program at Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests include language policy and planning, multilingualism and southern epistemologies. Edwin's recent works have appeared in the
Journal of English for Specific Purposes, Current Issues in Language Planning and the
International Journal of Multilingualism. Bassey E. Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His teaching and/or research interests span multilingualism (in higher education), language policy, terminology and decolonial approaches to sociolinguistics. He is co-editor with Sinfree Makoni of
Southernizing Sociolinguistics: Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in Language in the Global South (Routledge, 2023).
Zusammenfassung
This book explores the ways in which language is understood, and how linguistic theories – and the idea of language as an object – fail to represent a reality that is inherently multi- and trans-. It offers a glimpse of a decolonial linguistics that centres entanglement – between the North and South and between the personal and the theoretical.
