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{"title":"Figures of interpretation. B. A. S. S. Meier-Lorente-Muth-Duchêne, Bristol & Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters. 2021. 176 pp. Hardback (9781788929394) 29.95 GBP, Ebook/ PDF (9781788929400) 5.00 GBP.","authors":"Ingrid de Saint-Georges","doi":"10.1111/josl.12648","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josl.12648","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"28 4","pages":"88-91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Os movimentos da perspectiva raciolinguística no sul latino-americano","authors":"Luanda Rejane Soares Sito","doi":"10.1111/josl.12641","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josl.12641","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"27 5","pages":"458-462"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136113155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Undoing raciolinguistics, unsettling (socio)linguistics","authors":"Jonathan Rosa, Nelson Flores","doi":"10.1111/josl.12646","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josl.12646","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"27 5","pages":"483-485"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136115131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The movements of the raciolinguistic perspective in the Latin American South","authors":"Luanda Rejane Soares Sito","doi":"10.1111/josl.12647","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josl.12647","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"27 5","pages":"453-457"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136115949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Undoing raciolinguistics","authors":"Nelson Flores,&nbsp;Jonathan Rosa","doi":"10.1111/josl.12643","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josl.12643","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this commentary, we discuss common pitfalls associated with the study of race and language, focusing specifically on the recent emergence of raciolinguistics as a frame for these efforts. We examine how raciolinguistics can be taken up in ways that silo discussions of race from the rest of linguistics—as something that the “raciolinguists” do—such that careful study of issues including colonialism, power, and societal hierarchies is perpetually pushed to the margins of the field. We also consider how the nominalization of raciolinguistics can suggest that race and language are agreed upon objects in ways that reproduce troublesome essentializations. We show how a raciolinguistic perspective can resist such tendencies by continually interrogating the colonial reproduction and transformation of modern knowledge projects and lifeways across societal contexts, as well as by continually examining the fundamental nature of language, race, and power. We end with what we see as the implications of a raciolinguistic perspective for all of linguistics.</p>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"27 5","pages":"421-427"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136114681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Troubling sociolinguistics practice and the coloniality of universalism","authors":"Finex Ndhlovu","doi":"10.1111/josl.12644","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josl.12644","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The quite contemporary epistemological postures that are critical of the dominance of Euro-modernist knowledge traditions are sometimes guilty of inadvertently perpetuating the very same hegemonies they seek to unsettle. For this reason, the intervention by Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa is timely and relevant. In re-assessing the “common sense” assumptions that belie the concept of “raciolinguistics,” Flores and Rosa remind us of the need to pitch our conversations with boldness, conceptual clarity, and conviction to avoid essentialisms that tend to hide and reveal—in equal measure—the co-naturalization of language and race and the concomitant discourses they invoke. This short commentary engages their reflections.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More than two decades ago, Latin American decolonial theorist, philosopher, and semiotician Walter D. Mignolo (&lt;span&gt;2002&lt;/span&gt;) published an article on “The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference.” In the article, Mignolo introduced several concepts that are foundational to the arguments that Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa advance. Included among the concepts introduced by Mignolo is “colonial difference,” “repetition without difference,” “the double bind,” “border thinking,” “relocation of thinking,” “critical awareness of the geopolitics of knowledge,” “Eurocentrism from the left,” and “Eurocentric critique of modernity,” among others. Together, and individually, these concepts point to the conundrum that contemporary social science and allied scholarly communities face in trying to transcend meta-narratives of Euro-modernist coloniality—in ways that do not reproduce the same. When Mignolo introduced these concepts, he was drawing attention to the fact that while the postmodern criticism of Euro-modernity is important and necessary, it is not enough. His call was for the development of alternative grammars and vocabularies that are fit for purpose—ones that would enable us to side step the language of colonial dichotomies and fallacies of superiority, linearity, completeness, and universal relevance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In re-engaging and troubling the concept of “raciolinguistics,” Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa follow the path of reflexive praxis charted by Walter Mignolo and other decolonial theorists. They are inviting us to enter dialogic conversation on the imperative to think otherwise, to think anew, those rarely challenged “commonsense” assumptions that underpin the work we do in sociolinguistics and allied fields of study. It is an invitation to change not only the conversation but also the contents of our conversations. Flores and Rosa urge us to embark on delinking—a project that confronts the dangers of global coloniality and hierarchies of humanity, race, languages, and knowledges. They are inviting us to undertake a broader global review of our practices to ascertain how we got to be where we are as well as the steps we might take to pick ourselves up and continue walking. Or, as postcolonial literary cr","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"27 5","pages":"449-452"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.12644","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136114226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Una perspectiva raciolingüística desde el Reino Unido","authors":"Ian Cushing","doi":"10.1111/josl.12637","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josl.12637","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;En 2023, me invitaron a dar una charla sobre el resurgimiento del pensamiento deficitario en las escuelas de Inglaterra y cómo las políticas educativas contemporáneas reproducen ideologías raciolingüísticas, las cuales enmarcan las prácticas lingüísticas de les niñes racializades y de clase trabajadora como si estuvieran sufriendo de carencias debilitantes. Después de la charla, un profesor blanco comentó que el pensamiento deficitario trataba más de la clase que la raza, y que los estudios que se enfocan en la raza corrían el riesgo de minimizar las luchas sociolingüísticas de la clase trabajadora blanca. He sido testigo del despliegue de las mismas ansiedades en la evaluación por pares, donde les sociolingüistes del Reino Unido parecen incomódes por los estudios que centran la raza y el colonialismo, a pesar de las lógicas coloniales que se encuentran al centro de la disciplina (Heller y McElhinny &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). Esto es particularmente preocupante dado que la sociolingüística surgió simultáneamente con la organización anticolonial del Movimiento de Poder Negro en los años 1960, lo cual representaba el activismo comunitario que involucraba la exposición de la vigilancia antinegra sistémica de las prácticas lingüísticas en las escuelas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;El artículo de Flores y Rosa en el presente diálogo expresa cómo una perspectiva raciolingüística nos invita a interrogar las raíces coloniales de la sociolingüística y cómo se han empujado los asuntos de la raza, el colonialismo y la supremacía blanca a los márgenes disciplinarios. Una perspectiva raciolingüística busca deshacer asunciones dadas por sentadas sobre la lengua, la raza y la clase para interrogar cómo las lógicas coloniales británicas siguen dando forma a la sociedad moderna. Este enfoque interseccional ha sido fundamental al surgimiento de una perspectiva raciolingüística desde el Reino Unido que ha examinado la naturaleza mutuamente constitutiva de la raza, la clase y la lengua en contextos diferentes, incluyendo en las escuelas (Cushing, &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Cushing y Snell, &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Li Wei y García &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;), en el proceso de ciudadanía del Reino Unido (Khan, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;), en la terapia del lenguaje, fonoaudiología y logopedia (&lt;span&gt;Farah f.c&lt;/span&gt;.) y en zonas urbanas con altas poblaciones del sur de Asia (Sharma, &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;; véase también Harris, &lt;span&gt;2006&lt;/span&gt;). Estas investigaciones continúan una historia larga de estudios producidos por académiques marginalizades que expusieron cómo las lógicas coloniales y supremacistas blancos deslegitimaron las practicas lingüísticas de comunidades racializadas a mediados del siglo XX (p. ej., Coard, &lt;span&gt;1971&lt;/span&gt;; Singh, &lt;span&gt;1988&lt;/span&gt;). Sin embargo, estos nombres son típicamente borrados en los relatos históricos de les sociolingüistes del Reino Unido (véase Gilmour, &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt; para una excepción) de la misma manera en que el colonialismo y la antinegrura a menudo se pasan por alto en proyec","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"27 5","pages":"478-482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.12637","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136113152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Raciolinguistic approaches and multidimensional analyses of the links among race, language, and power","authors":"Sherina Feliciano-Santos","doi":"10.1111/josl.12639","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josl.12639","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Flores and Rosa's proposition of a raciolinguistic approach provides an important political, historical, relational, and sensorial framework for understanding how people become raced and how social action becomes interpretable through a racialized lens. I build on this analysis to underscore the need for scholarship of race and language to consider a multidimensional analysis that is dynamic, historical, and cognizant of the complex power relations involved in linking and unlinking race and language. As I understand, their argument is a call to be wary of approaches that treat race and its relationship to language as decontextualized ahistorical categories across space and time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Attention to the sensorial interface that impacts how race is interactionally experienced also means paying attention to the historical circumstances and relations of power that produce race as a perceivable category of social differentiation, be it through aspects of speech and language, physical appearance, genealogical ancestry, and/or whichever characteristics become historically associated with racial categories in a given place and time. This requires a simultaneous acknowledgment and analysis of race as a colonial construct, as an anchor of relations, and a basis for certain forms of identity. In this commentary, I briefly discuss racial categories as complex, multifaceted colonial orders. I then discuss a multi-vector framework that, in acknowledging the multidimensionality of racial instantiation, allows for a grounded analysis of how race and its relationship to linguistic phenomena may be constructed, experienced, reproduced, and challenged.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thinking of coloniality as the productive of the modern social orders that produce race as an important vector of and proxy for sociocultural experiences across different historical and geopolitical situations allows us to analytically see how these categories also produce interstices and voids where the limitations and excesses of assumed categories are insufficient and do not neatly map onto lived experiences and conceptualizations of identity and language. To understand the multifaceted and lasting ways that European colonial projects have structured systems of knowledge, hierarchies, and culture to reproduce Eurocentric colonial power, we need to ask: What gets erased, left out, or overdetermined in the broad categories of language and race used to demographically trace patterns?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The discussion of race in this context can be understood in relationship to the distinctive forms of organizing differences within coloniality. The concept of coloniality (Quijano, &lt;span&gt;2000&lt;/span&gt;) points to the epistemological conditions that are shaped along the political–economic conditions of colonial relations. Reyes (&lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;) applied this concept to ideas about mixed race and mixed language, to understand them not as attributes of persons and speech, but instead as an attribute of the listening subject pos","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"27 5","pages":"463-467"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.12639","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136115919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who is (not) engaged with undoing Raciolinguistics?","authors":"Wesley Y. Leonard","doi":"10.1111/josl.12638","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josl.12638","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"27 5","pages":"441-444"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136112718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why this text? Why now? A response to Flores and Rosa","authors":"Cécile B. Vigouroux","doi":"10.1111/josl.12649","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josl.12649","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Why&lt;/i&gt; this text? Why &lt;i&gt;now&lt;/i&gt;? These are two questions that Flores and Rosa's article prompted on my mind. The paper sounds like a ‘tune up’, if not a recalibration, of the raciolinguistic perspective (RP) that the two authors see drifting away from its original ambitions, which can be summarized as (1) to account for the co-naturalization of language and race and how the process is achieved semiotically; and (2) ultimately to expose and disrupt the inherited colonial foundations of the field of linguistics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fact that intellectual ideas or theoretical paradigms take a life of their own — with misinterpretation being part of the equation — is not new in science. Related to the questions articulated at the outset of this commentary are those of why the RP has been embraced increasingly by several language scholars in some parts of the world and why it has evolved in the way it has. The sophisticated analysis of academia of Bourdieu (&lt;span&gt;1975&lt;/span&gt;) as a field — whose social dynamics are analogized to those of a game — helps us understand this evolution. The RP's higher ‘market value’ over the previous scholarship that had also addressed the entanglement of language and race and did not receive as much attention from the wider academic community (see for instance Makoni et al., &lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;) appears to be the answer. It adds to the geopolitics of the production of knowledge and the circulation of the latter from the United States modern academic ‘centre’ (which is highly stratified) to the world's ‘peripheries’ (in the terminology of Wallerstein (&lt;span&gt;2004&lt;/span&gt;)’s world-system analysis). Although I assume that &lt;i&gt;doing raciolinguistics&lt;/i&gt; is part of &lt;i&gt;doing being&lt;/i&gt; in the current game of socially-oriented linguistics, I do not intend to undermine in any way Flores and Rosa's (as well as other scholars’) important contributions to our understanding of the intersections of language and race. Unveiling the logics of the heterogeneous academic field in which we position ourselves and are positioned by others not only challenges the positivist idea of ‘true knowledge’ but also helps each of us reflect on &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt; we research, &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; we do it, and &lt;i&gt;why now&lt;/i&gt;. It would be naive to think that language scholars’ increased interest in language and race has been driven only by the current political situations across the world. Contemporary race-based dominance and exclusion have precedents, often distant ones, from which they are not radically different.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flores and Rosa add their voices to some prominent linguists before them (e.g. Mufwene, &lt;span&gt;2001, 2008&lt;/span&gt;; DeGraff, &lt;span&gt;2005&lt;/span&gt; in the case of creolistics) who have repeatedly called out some racist underpinning of Western linguistics inherited from its birth in a period when colonization was associated with ‘la mission civilisatrice’, and non-Europeans were considered less evolved than, and their languages as inferior to, Europeans. We should ask","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"27 5","pages":"445-448"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.12649","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136115144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}