Toward Linguistic Justice for Indigenous People

A Response to Charity Hudley, Mallinson, and Bucholtz

Dados Bibliográficos

ID14616003
AutoresAlice Gaby (0000-0003-4637-5513), Lesley Woods (0000-0002-4868-454X)
Ano2020
Volume96
Fascículo4
Páginase268-e280
Data de publicação2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/lan.2020.0078
OpenAlexW3115638146
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17

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