ISBN:
9781351805070
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.446091724
Keywords:
Language and culture-Developing countries
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book brings to life initiatives among scholars of the south and north to understand better the intelligences and pluralities of multilingualisms in southern communities and spaces of decoloniality.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: A Sociolinguistics of the South -- Introduction -- Southern Multilingualisms and Diversities -- The South in Sociolinguistics? -- South as Geopolitical Artifice -- South as of Margins and Despair -- South as Potential - Semper Aliquid Novi -- South as Hope, Care, Love in Adversity -- Sociolinguistics in the South? -- Southern Multilingualisms and Care -- Southern Multilingualisms: Hope and Resourcefulness -- Southern Multilingualisms: Love and Linguistic Citizenship -- Savage Pasts, Suffering Presents, Seductive Futures -- Conversations or Dialogue with the North -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Stories of the South and Their Storytellers -- Framing 'Stories of the South and Their Storytellers' -- References -- Chapter 2: Outside In 1 : The Relevance of Epistemologies of the Global South for North America and the United States Amidst the Immigration Debate -- The Legacy and Resilience of the Colonizer's Model -- Language, Literacy, and the Colonizer's Model -- The Alleged Great Cognitive Divide -- The Depreciation of Vernaculars through the Pedagogization of Literacy -- English Illiteracy as 'Legal Sanction' for Discrimination -- Using English Literacy Tests as a Justification for Racial Superiority -- English-Only, Americanization, and the Persistence of Racialization -- Race, Religion, and the Purity of Blood and the Lingering Effects of Coloniality -- The Salience of Language versus Other Forms of Discrimination -- Conclusion: Overcoming the Legacies of Coloniality, Nationalism, and Ethnocentrism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Roots and Routes: Meshworks 1 of Multilingualism -- Introduction.
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