Language Out of Place: (Settler-)Colonial Language Frames and Raciolinguistic Violence

• In Event: 58.083 - Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: 58.083-12 - Land, Language, Place, and the Turnings From Coloniality

Abstract

This theoretical paper engages with the emerging field of raciolinguistics, discussing the racial and linguistic violence of (settler)-colonial formations and the consequences for social "common sense" concerning people and language. The intent is to render some of these processes more transparent, in particular the colonial conceptualization of language as bounded, biologicalized, and hierarchically valued, with implications for the ways in which we approach language work in the educational field and in decolonizing projects.

Author

• Juliet Kunkel, Berkeley University of California