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12 ‘Sociolinguistics Maak My Skaam [Sociolinguistics Makes Me Ashamed]’: Humour as Decolonial Methodology
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Contributors vii
- Preface xiii
- 1 Introduction: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics 1
- 2 ‘Purifying’ Hindi Translanguaging from English and Urdu Emblems: A Sociolinguistic Decolonization of the Hindu Right? 18
- 3 The South in the North: Colonization and Decolonization of the Mind 39
- 4 Conversation with Ellen Cushman 56
- 5 From Douglas Firs to Giant Cuttlefish: Reimagining Language Learning 71
- 6 Making the Secular Sacred: Sociolinguistic Domains and Performance in Christian Worship 90
- 7 The Relevance of Experience: Decolonial and Southern Indigenous Perspectives of Language 109
- 8 From Anthropophagy to the Anthropocene: On the Challenges of Doing Research in Language and Society in Brazil and the Global South 127
- 9 Localizing National Multilingualism in Some Countries in East Africa 147
- 10 Conversation with Lynn Mario Menezes De Souza 169
- 11 Thoughts on ‘Love’ and Linguistic Citizenship in Decolonial (Socio) linguistics 199
- 12 ‘Sociolinguistics Maak My Skaam [Sociolinguistics Makes Me Ashamed]’: Humour as Decolonial Methodology 219
- 13 Decolonial Praxis and Pedagogy in Sociolinguistics: Concluding Reflections 239
- 14 Commentary: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics – A Radical Listening 255
- 15 Commentary: Mobile Gazing. On Ethical Viability and Epistemological Sustainability 262
- Index 273
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Contributors vii
- Preface xiii
- 1 Introduction: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics 1
- 2 ‘Purifying’ Hindi Translanguaging from English and Urdu Emblems: A Sociolinguistic Decolonization of the Hindu Right? 18
- 3 The South in the North: Colonization and Decolonization of the Mind 39
- 4 Conversation with Ellen Cushman 56
- 5 From Douglas Firs to Giant Cuttlefish: Reimagining Language Learning 71
- 6 Making the Secular Sacred: Sociolinguistic Domains and Performance in Christian Worship 90
- 7 The Relevance of Experience: Decolonial and Southern Indigenous Perspectives of Language 109
- 8 From Anthropophagy to the Anthropocene: On the Challenges of Doing Research in Language and Society in Brazil and the Global South 127
- 9 Localizing National Multilingualism in Some Countries in East Africa 147
- 10 Conversation with Lynn Mario Menezes De Souza 169
- 11 Thoughts on ‘Love’ and Linguistic Citizenship in Decolonial (Socio) linguistics 199
- 12 ‘Sociolinguistics Maak My Skaam [Sociolinguistics Makes Me Ashamed]’: Humour as Decolonial Methodology 219
- 13 Decolonial Praxis and Pedagogy in Sociolinguistics: Concluding Reflections 239
- 14 Commentary: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics – A Radical Listening 255
- 15 Commentary: Mobile Gazing. On Ethical Viability and Epistemological Sustainability 262
- Index 273