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Undoing raciolinguistics

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ID3639740
AuthorsNelson Flores (0000-0003-3864-7806, Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA, corresponding author), Jonathan Rosa (0000-0002-2407-6240)
Year2023
Volume27
Issue5
Pages421-427
Publication date2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/josl.12643
OpenAlexW4387673535
LanguageEN
Citations received39
References cited43

In this commentary, we discuss common pitfalls associated with the study of race and language, focusing specifically on the recent emergence of raciolinguistics as a frame for these efforts. We examine how raciolinguistics can be taken up in ways that silo discussions of race from the rest of linguistics-as something that the "raciolinguists" do-such that careful study of issues including colonialism, power, and societal hierarchies is perpetually pushed to the margins of the field. We also consider how the nominalization of raciolinguistics can suggest that race and language are agreed upon objects in ways that reproduce troublesome essentializations. We show how a raciolinguistic perspective can resist such tendencies by continually interrogating the colonial reproduction and transformation of modern knowledge projects and lifeways across societal contexts, as well as by continually examining the fundamental nature of language, race, and power. We end with what we see as the implications of a raciolinguistic perspective for all of linguistics

Colonialism · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Frame (networking · Linguistics · Nominalization · Noun · Perspective (graphical · Power (physics · Race (biology · Reproduction · Sociology · Undoing · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology

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Citation span2023 - 2026 (4)
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