Southernizing and decolonizing the Sociology of Language: African scholarship matters

• Autores: Stephanie Rudwick, Sinfree Bullock Makoni
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 267-268, 2021, págs. 259-263
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this short article we call for decolonization strategies in the Sociology of Language through a focus shift towards the global South, in particular Africa and a heightened attention to “race” as a significant category. We highlight three primary points that require critical attention in a decolonized Sociology of Language: (i) the identification of northern sociolinguistic theories which have been masked as universal and a critical shift towards theoretical frameworks emerging from the South; (ii) the acknowledgement of “white” privilege and “white fragility” in language studies and its related problem of ignoring “race” as a significant category, in scholarship as well as among authors/editors; and (iii) the under-representation of (especially female) scholars of colour in sociolinguistic research.