Toward Linguistic Justice for Indigenous People

A Response to Charity Hudley, Mallinson, and Bucholtz

Bibliographic Data

ID14616003
AuthorsAlice Gaby (0000-0003-4637-5513), Lesley Woods (0000-0002-4868-454X)
Year2020
Volume96
Issue4
Pagese268-e280
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/lan.2020.0078
OpenAlexW3115638146
LanguageEN
Citations received17

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