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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.
List of contents
Introduction: Glocal Languages, the South Answering Back
Manuela Guilherme and Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza
Section I: Glocal Languages - Theoretical Background
Chapter 1: Glocal Languages, Coloniality and Globalization from Below
Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza
Chapter 2: Glocal Languages Beyond Postcolonialism: The North and the South in the north and in the south
Manuela Guilherme
Section II: Indigenous Languages as Glocal Languages
Chapter 3: Glocalism Now and Then: The De-colonial Turn of Guarani, Portuguese and Spanish
Fernanda Martins Felix
Chapter 4: Reshuffling Conceptual Cards: What Counts as Language in Lowland Indigenous South America
Jamille Pinheiro Dias
Section III: Portuguese as Glocal Language
Chapter 5: The Imaginary in Portuguese Language Perceptions in Academia: (Mis)directions Between the Local and the Global
Gesualda dos Santos Rasia
Chapter 6: The Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project: Contributions Towards Knowledge, Teaching and Disclosure of Brazilian Portuguese
Marcela Moura Torres Paim and Silvana Soares Costa Ribeiro
Section IV: Spanish as Glocal Language
Chapter 7: Comparisons Between Spanish and Portuguese: Proposals for University Teaching
Adrián Pablo Fanjul
Chapter 8: Multiculturalism and Glocal Languages: The Impact of Cultural Mobility in Spanish Teaching and Learning in Southern Brazil
Maria Josele Bucco Coelho
Section V: English as Glocal Language
Chapter 9: English (Mis)education as an Alternative to Challenge English Hegemony: A Geopolitical Debate
Daniel de Mello Ferraz
Chapter 10: Teaching English to Undergraduate Students in a Brazilian University: Thinking Glocally
Alessandra Coutinho Fernandes
Conclusion: Towards Globalization from Below
Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza and Manuela Guilherme
About the author
Manuela Guilherme is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza is Professor of Language Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Summary
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".
