Entanglements

Sinfree Makoni is a Professor in Applied Linguistics and African Studies and Director of African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He holds Extraordinary Professorship, Visiting Professor and Researcher positions at several South African institutions: North-West University, Nelson Mandela University, University of the Western Cape and University of Zululand.Unyierie Idem is a Professor in the Academic ESL Department, Holyoke Community College, USA.Edwin Appah Dartey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Applied Linguistics and the African Studies Program at Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests include language policy and planning, multilingualism and southern epistemologies. Edwin's recent works have appeared in the Journal of English for Specific Purposes, Current Issues in Language Planning and the International Journal of Multilingualism. Bassey E. Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His teaching and/or research interests span multilingualism (in higher education), language policy, terminology and decolonial approaches to sociolinguistics. He is co-editor with Sinfree Makoni of Southernizing Sociolinguistics: Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in Language in the Global South (Routledge, 2023).

This volume is most remarkable for its intellectual humility. Even as it shares insights from some of the most important scholars of decolonial thought and praxis, the volume – and the Forum that led to it – remains committed to diverse perspectives and genuine debate. In refusing ‘a perpetual search for mythical purity’, this volume offers readers a radical example of how to listen carefully and think openly about decoloniality.

• ContributorsCécile Vigouroux: Foreword Sinfree Makoni, Unyierie Idem, Edwin Dartey and Bassey Antia: Political and Linguistic EntanglementsChapter 1. Sinfree Makoni and Henry Widdowson: In Conversation  Chapter 2. Lynn Mario de Souza: Southernizing LinguisticsChapter 3. Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy and Sinfree Makoni: In ConversationChapter 4. Susan Gal and Judith Irvine: Signs of Difference: A ConversationChapter 5. Joseph Errington: Living with Lingua Francas: English in Indonesia and IndonesianChapter 6. Stephanie Rudwick: Southernizing the Study of English as a Lingua Franca: In ConversationChapter 7. Ellen Hurst: African Youth Language Research: Stylects and Decolonial Practice                Chapter 8. Rachel Wicaksono: Ontologies of English: In Applied Linguistics, TESOL and BeyondChapter 9. Mary Louise Pratt: Epilogue Chapter 10. Yecid Ortega: Palabras FinalesIndex