Postcolonial Language Policy and Planning and the Limits of the Notion of the Modern State

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Sinfree Makoni, Cristine Severo, Ashraf Abdelhay
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Abstract

In this review, we discuss the limits of the concept of the modern nation-state to explore language issues in postcolonial contexts, as in Africa. We argue in favor of a revision of the history of the field of language policy and planning (LPP) and sociolinguistics, paying attention to how the colonial issue has been erased and downplayed. We first explore the colonial history of LPP and how this field contributed to frame African multilingualisms as problems to be solved. Second, we briefly discuss how the contemporary understanding of citizenship in Africa is entangled with the colonial history of a particular version of the state in Africa; we focus on Sudan as an example. We problematize the construct of “developing nation” inscribed in the methodological nationalism that characterizes the early LPP framework, which reverberates in contemporary public policies. By doing so, we advocate for a perspective of language that is historically and locally embedded, following a politics that recognizes the importance of Southern epistemologies to language studies.
后殖民语言政策和规划以及现代国家概念的局限性
在这篇综述中,我们讨论了现代民族国家概念的局限性,以探索后殖民背景下的语言问题,如在非洲。我们主张对语言政策与规划(LPP)和社会语言学领域的历史进行修订,关注殖民问题是如何被抹去和淡化的。我们首先探讨了LPP的殖民历史,以及这一领域如何有助于将非洲多语言作为有待解决的问题。其次,我们简要讨论了当代对非洲公民身份的理解是如何与非洲特定版本的国家的殖民历史纠缠在一起的;我们以苏丹为例。我们对“发展中国家”的建构提出了问题,这种建构铭刻在方法论民族主义中,是早期LPP框架的特征,并在当代公共政策中产生了反响。通过这样做,我们提倡一种历史和当地嵌入的语言视角,遵循一种认识到南方认识论对语言研究重要性的政治。
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期刊介绍: The Annual Review of Linguistics, in publication since 2015, covers significant developments in the field of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. Reviews synthesize advances in linguistic theory, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language change, biology and evolution of language, typology, as well as applications of linguistics in many domains.
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