Decolonising sociolinguistics research

Methodological Turn-Around Next

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4179701
AutoresFinex Ndhlovu (0000-0002-9263-0725, University of New England , Armidale , Australia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen2021
Número267-268
Páginas193-201
Fecha de publicación2021-03-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl-2020-0063
OpenAlexW3137953537
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas38
Referencias citadas23

This short article argues that notwithstanding theoretical advances that have sought to unsettle the hegemony of mainstream theoretical frameworks, language in society researchers and other social science scholarly communities from the Southern orbit of the globe, continue to be wedded to conventional Euro-modernist methodologies. I suggest that the need to delink from imperial logics of doing research is a must and not an option. We need a language to explore spaces and modes of being that do not exist in the spaces of current Euro-modernist frameworks but that do exist in the majority of other communities around the world. In advancing this line of argument, I join ongoing conversations among indigenous and decolonial scholars speaking from the margins of the mainstream on the need for epistemic reconstitution of the discourse and praxis of research

Epistemology · Globe · Hegemony · Indigenous · Linguistics · Mainstream · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Social science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy