Decolonizing Linguistics

Decolonizing Linguistics, the companion volume to Inclusion in Linguistics, is designed to uncover and intervene in the history and ongoing legacy of colonization and colonial thinking in linguistics and related fields. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline.

About the author

Anne H. Charity Hudley is Associate Dean of Educational Affairs, Stanford Graduate School of Education, the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education and Professor of African and African American Studies & Linguistics, by courtesy. She is also director of the Stanford Black Academic Development Lab.

Christine Mallinson is the 2023-24 Lipitz Distinguished Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program, and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, where she is also Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship and Special Assistant for Research & Creative Achievement in the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Mary Bucholtz is Professor in Department of Linguistics and Director of the Center for California Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also affiliated with the Departments of Anthropology, Education, Feminist Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese as well as the Programs in Latin American and Iberian Studies and in Comparative Literature.

Summary

Decolonizing Linguistics, the companion volume to Inclusion in Linguistics, is designed to uncover and intervene in the history and ongoing legacy of colonization and colonial thinking in linguistics and related fields. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Bucholtz, Anne H Charity Hudley, Anne H. (Associate Dean of Educati Charity Hudley, Hudley, Christine Mallinson
• Assisted by: Mary Bucholtz (Editor), Mary (Professor Bucholtz (Editor), Bucholtz Mary (Editor), Anne H. Charity Hudley (Editor), Anne H. (Associate Dean of Educational Affairs Charity Hudley (Editor), Charity Hudley Anne H. (Editor), Christine Mallinson (Editor), Christine (Professor Mallinson (Editor), Mallinson Christine (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2024
• EAN: 9780197755259
• ISBN: 978-0-19-775525-9
• No. of pages: 486
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Social interaction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Sociolinguistics, Social and ethical issues