List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza

Introduction

Bassey E. Antia and Sinfree Makoni

Part I: The politics of the constitution of language, and its metalanguage, in the Global South

Chapter 1: Can there be a politics of language? Reflections on language and metalanguage

Christopher Hutton

Chapter 2: Shallow grammar and African American English: Evaluating the master’s tools in linguistics

Arthur K. Spears

Chapter 3: Multilingual socialization and development of multilingualism as a first language: Implications for multilingual education

Ajit K. Mohanty

Chapter 4: Questioning epistemic racism in issues of language studies in Brazil: The case of Pretugues versus popular Brazilian Portuguese

Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza and Gabriel Nascimento

Chapter 5: Baptism of indigenous languages into an ideology: A decolonial critique of missionary linguistics in South-Eastern Nigeria

Unyierie Idem and Imelda Udoh

Chapter 6: Christian-lects and Islam-lects: On religious inventions of languages

Cristine Severo and Ashraf Abdelhay

Part II: Who gets published in sociolinguistics?

Chapter 7: Black female scholarship matters: Erasure of black African women’s sociolinguistic scholarship

Busi Makoni

Chapter 8: African contributions to four journals of sociolinguistics

Evershed Kwasi Amuzu, Elvis ResCue, Bernard Boakye and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo

Part III: Language in the Global South and the social inscription of difference

Chapter 9: Begging for "authenticity": Language, class and race politics in South Africa

Bongi Bangeni, Nwabisa Bangeni and Stephanie Rudwick

Chapter 10: Mandarin Chinese as the national language and its discontents

Uradyn E. Bulag

Chapter 11: Minoritized youth language in Norwegian media discourse: Surfacing the abyssal line

Rafael Lomeu Gomes and Bente A. Svendsen

Part IV: Learning and the quotidian experience of language in the Global South

Chapter 12: The lexico-semantics of Whiteness and its transactionalization in Black African languages

Bassey E. Antia, Sinfree Makoni and Joseph Igono

Chapter 13: Linguistic governmentality, neoliberalism, and Communicative Language Teaching: Invisibility of indigenous ethnic languages in the multilingual schools in Bangladesh

Shaila Sultana, Nuzhat Tazin Ahmed, Md. Nahid Ferdous Bhuiyan and Md. Shamsul Huda

Chapter 14: Making of an exile: An analytic authoethnography

Mari Haneda

Part V: Summing up

Epistolary afterword: Letter to the prince

Bassey E. Antia

Epilogue: Every dog has its day; but the long-time underdog can’t wait any longer for that day!

Kanavillil Rajagopalan