Abstract
Some key categories in the study of language and society - such as the notion of identity and the very notion of language itself - have come under critical scrutiny with the rise of concepts such as translanguaging. While acknowledging the epistemological and political necessity of this critique I caution against the conflation of concepts with social realities. At the same time, I argue for a critical practice that does not subsume the local in favor of global theoretical trends, which can result from conceptual reification occurring due to an insidious nexus between neo-liberal forces and global inequalities in knowledge production.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 253-257 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | International Journal of the Sociology of Language |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Issue number | 267-268 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1 2021 |
Keywords
- global
- knowledge production
- local
- politics
- social reality
- sociolinguistics
- translanguaging
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language