Hospitable Linguistics
Description
Challenging the boundaries of linguistics as a field, and transgressing the limitations of genre in writing about language, this book explores the possibilities of what the authors call a 'hospitable linguistics'. It represents a crucial intervention in attempts to fashion a more integrative, responsible and respectful linguistics.
Product Details
| Publisher | Multilingual Matters Limited |
| Publish Date | March 19, 2025 |
| Pages | 366 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781788929691 |
| Dimensions | 9.7 X 6.8 X 0.8 inches | 1.3 pounds |
About the Author
Nicholas G. Faraclas is Full Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico. His research focuses on language and power, language and the colonial construction of race, gender and class, linguistic contact and hybridity, indigeneity and linguistic sovereignty, critical literacy and popular education, and the linguistic and cultural repertoires of the Afro-Atlantic and Melanesia.
Anne Storch is Full Professor in Afrikanistik / African Linguistics at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research focuses on linguistic manipulation and marginalized languages, linguistic typology, colonial linguistics and anthropological linguistics.
Viveka Velupillai is an Honorary Professor in the Department of English at the University of Giessen, Germany and Visiting Professor at the Language Sciences Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland. Her research focuses on linguistic typology, language contact and historical linguistics, Creoles and marginalized languages.
Reviews
This is a wonderful volume that examines how mother tongues can articulate resistance to colonial sovereignty. This book contributes significantly to research around indigenous languages - keeping stories alive, telling the untold tales and highlighting the wrongs of colonialism.-- "Helen J. Balfour, Murdoch University, Australia"
This rigorous publication invites the reader to consider that the boundaries created between disciplines and languages by the colonial order are artificial. The inclusive methodologies in each chapter and the transformative approach of the book in its entirety challenge us to reflect on new ways of understanding the study of language.
This rigorous publication invites the reader to consider that the boundaries created between disciplines and languages by the colonial order are artificial. The inclusive methodologies in each chapter and the transformative approach of the book in its entirety challenge us to reflect on new ways of understanding the study of language.-- "Juan Carlos Suárez Villegas, University of Seville, Spain"
This volume is an urgent must-read for social-justice activists with interest in language and linguistics. Its multilingual approach to topics well beyond the conventional confines of linguistics contributes to the multidisciplinary foundation that's needed for truly inclusive research where Indigenous and marginalised voices have a say in discourses of decolonisation.
This volume is an urgent must-read for social-justice activists with interest in language and linguistics. Its multilingual approach to topics well beyond the conventional confines of linguistics contributes to the multidisciplinary foundation that's needed for truly inclusive research where Indigenous and marginalised voices have a say in discourses of decolonisation.-- "Michel DeGraff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA"
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