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

This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern sociolinguistics. It showcases voices from the Global South that substitute alternative and complementary narrations of the link between language and society for canonical renditions of the field. Drawing on Southern epistemologies, the volume critically explores the entangled histories of racial colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in perpetuating prejudice in and around language as a means of encouraging the conceptualization of alternative epistemological futures for sociolinguistics. The book features work by both established and emerging scholars, and is organized around four parts: The politics of the constitution of language, and its metalanguage, in the Global South; Who gets published in sociolinguistics? Language in the Global South and the social inscription of difference; and Learning and the quotidian experience of language in the Global South. This book will be of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, critical race and ethnic studies, and philosophy of knowledge. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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 formultilingual 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 journalsof sociolinguistics Evershed Kwasi Amuzu, Elvis ResCue, Bernard Boakyeand 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 doghas 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 speci?c 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 in

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.