Multilingualism as Utopia: Fashioning Non-Racial Selves

Autor/inn/en	Stroud, Christopher; Williams, Quentin
Titel	Multilingualism as Utopia: Fashioning Non-Racial Selves
Quelle	In: AILA Review, 30 (2017), S.167-188 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-0213
DOI	10.1075/aila.00008.str
Schlagwörter	Multilingualism; Self Concept; Foreign Countries; Foreign Policy; Power Structure; Indo European Languages; Racial Segregation; Social Change; Music; Nonstandard Dialects; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Selbstkonzept; Ausland; Außenpolitik; Indoeuropäisch; Rassentrennung; Sozialer Wandel; Musik; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
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. (As Provided).
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