A Decolonial Crip Linguistics

Bibliographic Data

ID22872003
AuthorsSuresh Canagarajah (0000-0002-1292-2366, Department of Applied Linguistics and English, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA , USA, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume44
Issue1
Pages1-21
Publication date2023-03-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueApplied Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0142-6001 • E-ISSN: 1477-450X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/applin/amac042
OpenAlexW4294771905
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited50

This article opens a conversation between disability studies and linguistics from the author’s positionality from the Global South. It argues that capacity building for both the abled and disabled in the North is implicated in the disablement of people in the Global South. A decolonial orientation to disability studies values vulnerability, relationality, and ethics which are less privileged in the academy. The article demonstrates how such a crip linguistics might facilitate a different understanding of language competence and analysis. Bringing out the ableism in dominant models of language competence, the article illustrates how linguistics might conceive communication as anomalous embodiment. Such an orientation will move from grammatical norms to nonnormativity, and diversity to multiplicity, as speakers engage with social networks and material ecologies for generating meanings in distributed practice motivated by relational ethics.

Ableism · Applied linguistics · Clinical linguistics · Competence (human resources) · Conversation · Linguistic competence · Linguistics · Media linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Communication · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology