Toward Linguistic Justice for Indigenous People

A Response to Charity Hudley, Mallinson, and Bucholtz

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14616003
AutoresAlice Gaby (0000-0003-4637-5513), Lesley Woods (0000-0002-4868-454X)
Año2020
Volumen96
Número4
Páginase268-e280
Fecha de publicación2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/lan.2020.0078
OpenAlexW3115638146
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17

Charity Hudley, Mallinson, and Bucholtz's (2020) target article details the urgent need for linguistics as a field to develop its theoretical, analytical, and political engagement with issues of race and racism. We agree with Charity Hudley et al.'s assertion that the ‘hegemonic whiteness’ of linguistics as a field ‘has been profoundly damaging both for linguistic scholarship and for linguistics as a profession’ (p. e211). In this response, we wish to expand upon this point specifically in regard to how linguists and linguistics relate to Indigenous peoples and their languages. We outline key respects in which academic linguistics has, or might be seen to have, perpetuated harm against Indigenous peoples. We also outline strategies for mitigating harm and supporting the language work done by members of Indigenous communities

Assertion · Economic Justice · Field (mathematics) · Harm · Indigenous · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Racism · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching