Situating sociolinguistics: Coupland –<i>Theoretical Debates</i>

Levon, Erez

doi:10.1111/josl.12233

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“…A decade later, the picture does not seem to have changed considerably. In a recent book (Coupland ) promoted by Cambridge University Press as ‘the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics’, no contribution substantially engages – except for the occasional reference – with either theory or data outside Western Europe and North America (see also Levon for a critique).…”

Section: Making the South An Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Seeing from the South: Discourse, gender and sexuality from southern perspectives

Milani

Lazar

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This article frames the Special Issue on ‘Discourse, Gender and Sexuality from the Global South’. It does so by providing an overview of the notion of the South in the social sciences and the humanities. We engage, in particular, with current theoretical discussions around a set of concepts and approaches that have been labelled ‘southern theories’, ‘theories from the south’, or ‘southern epistemologies’. Against this backdrop, we explain why southern perspectives are needed in the study of discourse, gender and sexuality, and sociolinguistics more broadly. We then offer a reflection on our (and our contributors’) ‘loci of enunciation’ (Bhabha ), before concluding with a summary of the articles in this Special Issue and their relations to the points raised in this introduction.

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Section: Making the South An Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Seeing from the South: Discourse, gender and sexuality from southern perspectives

Milani

Lazar

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…The sociolinguistic treatment of selfhood from the perspective of sumud offers a new framework and terminology for analysis, aligning with calls to diversify the theories and methods in sociolinguistics (e.g. Levon 2017). Moreover, localizing LC by connecting it to sumud as a decolonial semiotic strategy extends the application of LC to broader contexts, demonstrating a range of other transformational processes.…”

Section: Reclaiming Ownership Of Palestinian Space and Identitymentioning

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Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship: Palestinian youth in Israel against imposed subjectivities

Awayed-Bishara

2023

Lang. Soc.

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This linguistic ethnographic study offers a nuanced pedagogical account of the Arabic term sumud, or ‘steadfastness’, through a sociolinguistic analysis of decolonial modes of expression among Palestinian youth in Israel. I reflect on events during the 2021 uprisings in East Jerusalem, when Palestinian youth within Israel took to the streets in solidarity with Palestinians in Jerusalem and Gaza. Considering the Israeli education system's denationalization of the Palestinian community within its borders, I examine how Palestinian political ideals cultivated outside the formal educational system open new possibilities for political organizing and expression. I reflect upon interviews with members of the Haifa Youth Movement and a Palestinian hip-hop artist and his lyrics. Engaging with Stroud's theorization of linguistic citizenship, I show how pedagogy of sumud as a linguistic citizenship practice opens new semiotic spaces for Palestinian youth in Israel to resist the erasure of their identity. (Linguistic citizenship, sumud pedagogy, Palestinian youth, colonized education)*

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“…Further, it should be highlighted that the inclusion and exclusion criteria proved to be a limitation because some works that are relevant for the investigation of multilingualism in the home had to be disregarded, especially works that situate themselves within 'language socialization' (e.g. Inasmuch as these observations may sound as methodological truisms, the critical approach proposed in this article, in particular the alignment with a decolonial approach (Castro-Gómez and Grosfoguel 2007; Mignolo 2011b), motivates the explicit discussion about promoting epistemic diversity (de Souza 2014) and challenging current geopolitics of knowledge (Levon 2017). Furthermore, while postmodern and poststructural critiques also challenge the neutrality of knowledge production and promote a greater involvement with methodological and epistemological reflexivity, and researcher positionality, a decolonial approach takes yet another step and envisages the need to redress the extant erasure of voices from the global South from current sociolinguistic debates (Milani and Lazar 2017) by deliberately bringing to the fore such perspectives, be it by focussing on the particular struggles of peoples from the global South, or by drawing on theory developed in Southern contexts.…”

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“…Finally, as long as the relevance of investigating families that go beyond the 'traditional, two-parents model' is framed within a logic of 'denial of coevalness' (Fabian 1983), FLP as a field of inquiry might restrict itself to a liberal understanding of diversity (Kymlicka 1995), and overlook debates that shed light on issues such as social class (Block, 2015) One way to overcome this limitation, and in line with the growing need to include southern perspectives in current sociolinguistic debates (cf. Levon 2017;Milani and Lazar 2017;García et al 2017), the critical approach to family multilingualism proposed here draws on the works of scholars involved with the decolonial turn (Castro-Gómez and Grosfoguel 2007). Castro-Gómez and Grosfoguel (2007) claim that while the forms of domination employed by European nation-states might have changed, the structure that sustains the relations between 'central' and 'peripheral' countries remains the same.…”

Section: What Could Decoloniality Mean For the Field Of Flp?mentioning

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Family Language Policy ten years on: A critical approach to family multilingualism

Gomes

2019

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Family language policy (FLP) has been establishing itself as a field in the past decade. Yet, much of the scholarly debate around family multilingualism has remained within the boundaries imposed by Western-centric epistemologies. In order to address this issue, this article reviews FLP studies published between 2008 and 2017, and discusses accomplishments and limitations of recent publications. The main argument presented here is that a critical approach to family multilingualism might contribute to the development of FLP in an unexplored direction. More specifically, this paper shows how drawing on a decolonial approach allows for an express engagement with debates that have only been marginally tapped into in current FLP scholarship, for instance, the intersectional dimension of social categorisations such as social class, race, and gender. Furthermore, a decolonial approach provides a robust frame to examine transnational practices by reconciling perspectives that tend to privilege either the material basis of the economic relations of production, or the cultural domain as a locus where these relations gain meaning. Finally, a decolonial approach to family multilingualism takes a step towards redressing the extant underrepresentation of southern theories in sociolinguistics.

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Situating sociolinguistics: Coupland –Theoretical Debates

Cited by 11 publications

References 65 publications

Seeing from the South: Discourse, gender and sexuality from southern perspectives

Seeing from the South: Discourse, gender and sexuality from southern perspectives

Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship: Palestinian youth in Israel against imposed subjectivities

Family Language Policy ten years on: A critical approach to family multilingualism

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