Multilingualism as utopia : Fashioning non-racial selves

IF 1 Q2 LINGUISTICS
AILA Review Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI:10.1075/AILA.00008.STR
C. Stroud, Q. Williams
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Abstract

Abstract The challenge of contemporary South Africa is that of building a (post)nation of postracial equity in a fragmented world of a globalized ethical, economic and ecological meltdown. In this paper, we seek to explore the idea of multilingualism as a technology in the conceptualization of alternative, competing futures. We suggest that multilingualism is understood in terms of how encounters across difference are mediated and structured linguistically offer a space for interrupting colonial relationships. Furthermore, we argue that multilingualism should be approached as a site where colonial power dynamics of languages and speakers are troubled, and where the potential for new empowering linguistic mediations of the mutualities of our common humanity with different others are worked out.
作为乌托邦的多语言:塑造非种族的自我
当代南非面临的挑战是在一个全球化的道德、经济和生态崩溃的碎片化世界中建立一个(后)公平的国家。在本文中,我们试图探索多语言作为一种技术的概念在替代,竞争的未来。我们认为,多语言现象可以理解为跨越差异的遭遇是如何被调解的,并在语言上结构化,为中断殖民关系提供了空间。此外,我们认为,多语言应该被视为语言和说话者的殖民权力动态受到困扰的地方,也是我们与不同他人共同人性的相互关系的新授权语言调解的潜力得到解决的地方。
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AILA Review
AILA Review LINGUISTICS-
CiteScore
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期刊介绍: AILA Review is a refereed publication of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, an international federation of national associations for applied linguistics. All volumes are guest edited. As of volume 16, 2003, AILA Review is published with John Benjamins. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: Scopus
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