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{"title":"Negotiating space for multilingualism in English-medium writing: authors, reviewers, editors","authors":"Maria Kuteeva","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2022.2092118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2092118","url":null,"abstract":"The role of the individual agency in the shaping of academic discourse cannot be under-estimated. The Oxford English Dictionary contains 788 citations from the writings of the seventeenth-century doctor and polymath Sir Thomas Browne, who drew on his knowledge of Latin to coin numerous neologisms which are used today in both scienti fi c and everyday English (e.g. electricity, medical, suicide, compensate, prairie, coexistence, coma, hallucination, carnivorous, migrant , ferocious , etc.). Brown ’ s (trans)linguistic creativity was truly exceptional, but resorting to classical languages, such as Latin and Ancient Greek without providing translations, used to be commonplace among humanities scholars well into the twentieth century. We do not need to go far in search for examples: Chal-mers (1936) article titled ‘ Sir Thomas Browne, true scientist ’ contains numerous examples of such code-meshing. Likewise, mixing di ff erent varieties of English has exercised a rhetorical function in academic discourse. In his seminal paper ‘ Beowulf : The Monsters and the Critics ’ (1936, reprinted 1983), J.R.R. Tolkien, then Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and creator of multilingual Middle-Earth, resorts to Chaucer ’ s Middle English to make a self-e ff acing remark comparing himself to his learned audience: and though it may seem presumption that I should try with swich a lewed mannes wit to pace the wisdom of an heep of lerned men , in this department there is at least more chance for the lewed man . (Tolkien 1983, 5 – 6) Such rhetorical strategies used to be markers of elite multilingualism 1 , indexical of huma-nistic scholarly traditions and knowledge of the canonical authors and texts. From the perspective of western scholarship, elite multilingualism in academic writing has involved the use of classical or high-prestige modern languages (e.g. French and German), which the authors acquired strati","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42055243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Self-othering to power: vilification, ridicule and moral claims in the Israeli right ‘underdog’ discourse","authors":"Eithan Orkibi","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2022.2079649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2079649","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although the Israeli right holds an equal – if not superior – position of power within the Israeli bi-polar political cleavage, its leaders and spokespersons continue to nurture a group identity of an excluded, marginalized and oppressed ideological movement. This study examines the discursive practice of ‘self-othering’ in Israeli right-wing discourse. Focusing on a particular case study – op-ed articles and commentaries published by right-wing opinion makers during the military crisis of summer 2006 – the study analyzes the Israeli right’s rhetoric of polarization in terms of movement-countermovement competitive framing process. Drawing on frame theory and historical discourse approach, the analysis shows how victimage discourse is employed by the Israeli right to delegitimize the left as being an oppressive elite, and to frame right-wing affiliation as a social identity of a popular movement whose members are mobilized to a continuous struggle against the ‘hegemonic control’ of the left.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44329345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Following the path of otherwise: subalternized subjects, academic writing and the political power of discomfort","authors":"Alan Silvio Ribeiro Carneiro","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2022.2113886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2113886","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article draws on discomfort as an epistemological tool to rethink about how subalternized subjects have been positioned and can position themselves in relation to academic writing practices and academic spaces. The discussion is organized in four sections: in the first one, drawing on Black feminist thought, it is discussed how language has a role in experiences of being marginalized and feeling uncomfortable in these spaces and the ways in which these feelings have been theorized. In the second section, based on a personal account, I narrate my own journey of discomfort in the process of learning how to become a researcher in the field of applied linguistics, considering the practices of academic writing. In the third section, I review a few contemporary trends in Humanities, to evaluate their potential as alternatives to change the metapragmatics and the pragmatics of knowledge production systems and avoid their misrecognition effects on subaltern subjects. Finally, I consider how subalternized subjects can position themselves in relation to these systems, proposing a transhistoric and transtopical way of positioning that could be a path to avoid assimilation and opening up possibilities for new modes of producing knowledge.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43465146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Epistemological plurality in intercultural communication knowledge","authors":"Hamza R’boul","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2022.2069784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2069784","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Intercultural communication is one of the primary fields that can deconstruct and unsettle historical and contemporary power structures. However, the demands for decolonizing the field warrant thoughtful and self-critical appraisal of how interculturality theory may fail to fulfill its inherent premises, e.g. equality, the problematization of international relations, reconciliation among cultures and ensuring the smooth functioning of intercultural communication. What is more disturbing is that intercultural communication may often focus on modest reforms calling for the inclusion of marginalized knowledges, rather than on fundamental institutional changes that can eradicate the forces that produce marginalization. To showcase the knowledge hierarchies characterizing the field, this paper examines the editorial boards and publication practices of five leading journals in intercultural communication. This paper discusses meta-intercultural ontologies and South-South inter-epistemic dialogue as nuanced decolonial counter-visions for disrupting the imbalances in global knowledge production in intercultural communication. Meta-intercultural ontologies is presented as a rhetoric of knowledging that processes various epistemological exigencies in order to support new frameworks, methodologies and decolonial knowledge production. South-South inter-epistemic dialogue is a form of collective decolonial thinking and acting whereby it is possible to transition from resistance to new insurgencies that interrupt, cultivate and exercise novel articulations and narratives.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45967423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Innovative perspectives on knowledge creation based on arts-related methods and participatory research","authors":"Cláudia Pato de Carvalho","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2022.2102174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2102174","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47642159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recent research trends on language education: translanguaging and linguaculture perspectives","authors":"Weihua Yu","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2022.2102173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2102173","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42555767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language diversity in academic writing: toward decolonizing scholarly publishing","authors":"Suresh Canagarajah","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2022.2063873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2063873","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article draws from scalar theory to examine how textual diversification can engage with linguistic and social structures to both pluralize academic writing and facilitate an alternate structuration of publishing policies and practices. It adopts indexical analysis to demonstrate how non-normative linguistic choices can gain uptake for meanings and status in academic communication, leading to the rescaling of vernacular resources in global publishing contexts. The author illustrates from his own academic publishing to demonstrate how he engaged with the different communicative contexts and changing geopolitical and epistemological conditions to introduce his heritage languages and literacy practices towards decolonizing academic writing. The article demonstrates the possibility of paradoxical outcomes such as the following: it is possible to have norms and also variation at the same time; structure and change can be simultaneous; the diverse spaces between the macro and micro might allow for different representational possibilities; and the rhizomatic and layered social, spatial and temporal scales mediate structures and agency for new alternatives.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45857291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What is next for de-westernizing communication studies?","authors":"S. Waisbord","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2022.2041645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2041645","url":null,"abstract":"De-westernization of communication studies is a diffused, multi-pronged intellectual movement, that has produced vibrant literature in recent years from around the world. De-westernization is both a layered argument as well as a political indictment of western-centric academic knowledge. It calls western scholarship to be aware of its blindspots and to open to non-western studies. It denounces inequalities in globalized communication studies, the persistent hegemony and universalist aspirations of western perspectives, the one-way global flow of academic ideas, and the limited inroads of non-western scholarship in the global North (Demeter 2020). De-westernization interrogates the provenance and the positionality of academic knowledge. Addressing these issues should be second nature for any scholar. Where do ideas come from? From what position do we produce knowledge? What are the biases of my work? What are the strengths and limitations of research and intellectual traditions? These questions, however, are rarely discussed in public, as if it were bad etiquette, akin to talking about religion or politics at the dinner table during the holidays. This is a major omission for a simple reason: Academic knowledge is produced in specific settings, shaped by multiple factors – from resources to political environments. Therefore, revealing biases is necessary to assess what’s missed and misinterpreted – what gets lost when communication studies are anchored in a particular set of intellectual traditions and experiences. In this regard, de-westernization overlaps with a related movement that also foregrounds issues of positionality: the critique of racialized and gendered structures of academic scholarship. Both movements tear off the pretense of abstract, aseptic, neutral science. They scrutinize how specific hierarchies and histories of power are woven into the production of academic knowledge, which in turn, reinforce inequalities and suppress or make alternative perspectives invisible. They reflect a move from the margins that questions dominant structures and demands a leveled field. De-westernization is also a political movement. It urges an intellectual shift – moving the gravitational center of scholarship. It is not simply a geographical turn; it is a call to curiosity about and engagement with ideas produced in various corners of the world. This demands the recognition of neglected intellectual traditions underpinning communication theories outside the west. De-westernization is another name for cosmopolitan scholarship (Waisbord 2016; Badr and Ganter 2020) in our globalized times – a necessary corrective and alternative to arguments with universalities aspirations generally","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41373239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What makes multicultural dialogue truly multicultural? Rethinking cultural convergence, theoretical globalism, and comparative Eurocentrism","authors":"Y. Miike","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2022.2033246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2033246","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This commentary article argues that, if we wish to make multicultural dialogue truly multicultural, we must rethink three pervasive and prevailing ideologies that are explicitly and implicitly shaping the current trends of communication theory, namely, cultural convergence, theoretical globalism, and comparative Eurocentrism. Cultural convergence should not be presumed only in light of popular culture and digital communication. A theory with its universal application should not be deemed as the highest form of theory. (U.S.) Eurocentric traditions should not be constantly honored as global standards. It is the author’s contention that, as long as these flawed ideological foundations remain unexamined, multicultural dialogue will be hegemonic monologue among Western and Westernized elites in the world. The constitutive metamodel will be useful and helpful for mutual referencing and learning when we metatheorize similarities and differences among cultural traditions of communication theory outside the limits of these problematic ideologies.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43612072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reclaiming the indigenous knowledge(s): English curriculum through ‘Decoloniality’ lens","authors":"Syed Abdul Manan, Khadija Tul-Kubra","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2022.2085731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2085731","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When government announced removal of the Goodbye Mr. Chips from intermediate-level English textbooks in one of the provinces of Pakistan, the public and media response was overwhelming. Students in particular took a sigh of relief because many believed it was a boring story by a foreign author, depicting a foreign setting. Drawing on this development as a reference point, this article examines the perspectives of students and teachers about the teaching of English literature in part of Pakistan. The method used combines semi-structured interviews with a questionnaire survey. Using Coloniality and Decoloniality as conceptual frames, the paper discusses the significance of participants’ perspectives at theoretical, ideological and implementational levels. Findings suggest a paradigmatic shift from the Anglo-normativity. Participants call for an overhaul of the current English literature-dominated curriculum. Their alternative paradigm is more pluralist, which should: reclaim the indigenous/local knowledge, be firmly grounded in students’ sociocultural ecologies, and take into consideration students’ cognitive engagement and identity investment. We interpret their reflective agency as a significant epistemic break from the normative deterministic logic of the unassailable position of English, and their voices as robust intellectual tools. Symbolically, these voices seek to liberate academia from the yoke of coloniality.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41508191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}