Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics

Interdisciplinary research on language in postcolonial contexts & on linguistics from a postcolonial perspective. Open-access! Find us here:

[Carsten Levisen @CarstenLevisen]

🇨🇩🇩🇪🇻🇺🇩🇰🇰🇿🇨🇦🇯🇵🇦🇺🇫🇮🇿🇦🇮🇱🇫🇷🇵🇱🇺🇸🇬🇧🇷🇺🇳🇵🇪🇨🇹🇴! Thanks to all panellists of “Magical Speech Acts”, #IPra2023. You came from near and far & you rocked! We aimed for global reach and cross-cultural pragmatics. #pragmatics for #thefuture 🌍!

[Multilingual Matters @Multi_Ling_Mat]

New book! "From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics" edited by Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni is out now!

Get 50% off with code FSTDS50 on our website until the end of the month: https://t.co/DYAqlOxC2M

[Dr Celeste R Louro 🌿 @CelesteRLouro]

Thrilled to announce that Amanda Hamilton and I have been awarded a @MLANews Humanities Innovation Grant for our project titled ‘Decolonising the Introductory Linguistics Curriculum’. @uwanews @arc_gov_au @AusLingSoc

[Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics @OfPostcolonial]

New special issue: *Language and Popular Geopolitics*, ed. by Susana S. Fernández & Carsten Levisen https://t.co/dtPCXnePs3 Geopolitics of textbooks, fieldwork, journalism, travel guides, classrooms, metaphors, linguistic norms, "the economy" & more #linguistics #geopolitics

[Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics @OfPostcolonial]

"Mimesis and the Acquisition of Gay Voice Timbre". By
Axel Fanego Palat @axelfleisch. Read here 👇 #sociophonetics #queerlinguistics #indexicality. https://t.co/AIBIo1C1Y2

[Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics @OfPostcolonial]

Porteño Spanish & The ideologies of Argentine National Discourse. Read Dr. Jan Hein's paper "Europeanized Places, Europeanized People: The Discursive Construction of Argentina" here 👉 https://t.co/1ArbKcwsyU #linguisticstwitter #Spanish #Postcolonial #Discourse

[Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics @OfPostcolonial]

THABO DITSELE: "Attitudes toward Language Use in Education: A Legacy of Colonialism and Apartheid in South Africa". READ HERE👉 https://t.co/F5Frw9mzXo #edutwitter #linguistictwitter, Southern #Bantu languages, #colonialism, #Apartheid

[Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics @OfPostcolonial]

ANGELIKA MIETZNER. "Tomorrow Means No: The Transfer of Swahili Linguistic Practices into Tourist Settings". Deep, innovative study on interactions between tourists and Kenyan tourism workers. @Angi_Mietzner. Open access: https://t.co/A8NELBMCDs #LinguisticTwitter #Pragmatics

[Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics @OfPostcolonial]

NICO NASSENSTEIN: "On Being Acholi in Kampala: Performing the Ugandan ‘Norzern Connection’". Read about irony, transgressive play and colonially-based schemes of conversation here: https://t.co/iHBjKFAEbA #LinguisticTwitter #sociolinguistics #pragmatics

[Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics @OfPostcolonial]

Judith Irvine: "The papers in this collection inspire rethinking the concept of “Othering” and the complexity of relationships and perspectives it entails". Read Irvine's thoughts on "The Other's Other" here 👇#languageideology #linguisticanthropology
https://t.co/0Dd7b8jtJK

[Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics @OfPostcolonial]

"Phantasy, Resistance and Alienation in Language and Discourse". By Sara Zavaree (@MajnunSane), Anne Storch, Nico Nassenstein, Angelika Mietzner (@AngieRosie) & Andrea Hollington. To get started, read here: 👇
https://t.co/vbOkxS9BbM
#linguisticstwitter #sociolinguistics

[Sara Zavaree @MajnunSane]

Our special issue is out.
Thanks @OfPostcolonial

[Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics @OfPostcolonial]

"The Other's Other!" Fresh off the press. Special issue in Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics. Read here 👇: https://t.co/PkJWpbRTr3 #linguistics #Anthropology #sociolinguistics #postcolonialstudies

[Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics @OfPostcolonial]

"THE OTHER'S OTHER", special issue in Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics is OUT. Edited by Andrea Hollington, Angelika Mietzner, Nico Nassenstein, Anne Storch & Sara Zavaree @MajnunSane. It's open-access. It's fresh. And hot off the press! #linguisticstwitter #sociolinguistics

[Carsten Levisen @CarstenLevisen]

On my reading table today! *Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics* and *Epistemology for the Rest of the World*. Beautiful books with insightful ideas #linguisticstwitter #linguistictheory #knowledges

[Abralin @abralin_oficial]

What I will do in this talk is illustrate how the discourses produced in postcolonial societies could be appropriately and sufficiently analysed using postcolonial pragmatics.

[Abralin @abralin_oficial]

Don't miss it!

[Michel DeGraff @MichelDeGraff]

"The politics of education in post-colonies: Kreyòl in Haiti as a case study of language as technology for power and liberation" — in the Journal of @OfPostcolonial Linguistics. https://t.co/ZCnsAJbseY