1: Ana Deumert and Anne Storch: Introduction: Colonial linguistics
then and now
Part I: In the Midst
2: Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi and S. Imtiaz Hasnain: Northern
perspectives on language and society in India
3: Rajend Mesthrie: Transcending the colonial? Colonial linguistics
and George Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India
4: Christine Severo and Sinfree Makoni: Using lusitanization and
creolization as frameworks to analyze historical and contemporary
Cape Verde language policy and planning
5: Nick Faraclas: On colonization and 'awesome materiality'. A
commentary
Part II: Echoes, Traces
6: Ingo H. Warnke: Tracing de-/colonial options in German Philology
around 1900: The two faces of Hermann Paul (1846-1921)
7: Anette Hoffmann: War and grammar: Acoustic recordings with
African prisoners of the First World War (1915-18)
8: Anne Storch: Accomplished works and facts. The family tree
project of Africanistics
9: Raewyn Connell: Linguistics and language in the global economy
of knowledge. A commentary
Part III: On the Poetics of Iconoclasm
10: Bettina Migge: Researching lesser-used endangered languages:
Exploring field and documentary linguistics' perspectives on
language research
11: Ana Deumert: The missionary in the theatre of linguistics: Or,
is a decolonial linguistics possible?
12: Reem Bassiouney: Language ideology and policy in a colonial and
postcolonial context: The case of Egypt
13: Ricardo Roque: The decolonizer iconoclast. A commentary
Part IV: Sounds of Resistance
14: Andrea Hollington: Jamaican postcolonial writing practices and
metalinguistic discourses as a challenge to established norms and
standards
15: Pegah Faghiri: Language ideologies and attitudes towards Arabic
in contemporary Iran
16: Katharina Monz: Decolonizing decolonization? Desiring pure
language in Mali
17: Christopher Stroud: Colonial creep
18: Salikoko S. Mufwene: Decolonial linguistics as paradigm shift.
A commentary
Part V: On Decoloniality
19: Nick Shepherd: A grammar of decoloniality
20: Walter Mignolo: Walking decolonially with Nick Shepherd
Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape
Town. She works within the broad field of sociocultural
linguistics, with a strong transdisciplinary focus. Her current
work explores the use of language in global political movements as
well as the contributions that de-/anti-colonial thought can make
to (socio)linguistic theory. Her many publications include
Introducing Sociolinguistics (with Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, and
William Leap;
Benjamins, 2009) and Sociolinguistics and Mobile Communication
(Edinburgh University Press, 2014). She is a recipient of the
Neville Alexander Award for the Promotion of Multilingualism (2014)
and the Humboldt
Research Award (2016). Anne Storch is Professor of African
Linguistics at the University of Cologne. Her work combines
contributions on cultural and social contexts of languages, the
semiotics of linguistic practices, colonial linguistics, epistemic
language and metalinguistics, and linguistic description. Her
publications include Secret Manipulations (OUP, 2011), A Grammar of
Luwo (Benjamins, 2014), and Language and Tourism in Postcolonial
Settings (with Angelika
Mietzner; Channel View, 2019), She is co-editor of the journal The
Mouth and a recipient of the Leibniz Prize (2017). Nick Shepherd is
Associate Professor of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus
University and Extraordinary
Professor at the University of Pretoria. His current projects are
focused on walking as a form of embodied research practice, and on
the politics and poetics of water in the Anthropocene. He has held
visiting positions at Harvard University, Brown University, the
University of Basel, and Colgate University. His recent
publications include After Ethics: Ancestral Voices and
Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology (with Alejandro Haber;
Springer, 2014) and The Mirror in the Ground: Archaeology,
Photography and the Making of a Disciplinary Archive (Jonathan
Ball, 2015).
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