BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4254-dcab5860b8bfc8a3186edf1278b38806@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260524T183710Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T103000 SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem ologies–Stephanie Rudwick DESCRIPTION:\nStephanie Rudwick\, \;University of Hradec Krá\; lové\;\n\n&ldquo\;Southernizing the Study of English as a Lingua F ranca&rdquo\;\n\nThis talk introduces my recent monograph about the ambi guities of English as a lingua franca by focusing on identity politics o f language and race in contemporary South Africa. Grounded in ethnograph y\, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach which highlights how th e ways of speaking English construct social and racial identities in a m ultilingual context. It raises critical questions around power and ideol ogy and demonstrates the limits of language against the power of race. T he book also challenges some long-held concepts underpinning existing re search from global North scholarship on English as a lingua franca\, e.g .\, ELF\, by a) highlighting its non-neutral nature\, and b) showing how race has been neglected as a significant analytical category of discrim ination. It offers a lens through which global scholarship on English as a lingua franca can be southernized and decolonized in terms of discipl inary limitations\, geopolitical orientations\, and a focus on the polit ics of race that characterize the use of English as a lingua franca all over the world.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr -gvf_0121/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Stephanie Ru dwick, University of Hradec Králové

“ Southernizing the Study of English as a Lingua Franca”

This talk introduces my recent monograph about the ambiguities of English as a lingua franca by focusing on identity politics of language and race in contemporary South Africa. Grounded in ethnography, the book adopts a m ultidisciplinary approach which highlights how the ways of speaking Engl ish construct social and racial identities in a multilingual context. It raises critical questions around power and ideology and demonstrates th e limits of language against the power of race. The book also challenges some long-held concepts underpinning existing research from global Nort h scholarship on English as a lingua franca, e.g., ELF, by a) highlighti ng its non-neutral nature, and b) showing how race has been neglected as a significant analytical category of discrimination. It offers a lens t hrough which global scholarship on English as a lingua franca can be sou thernized and decolonized in terms of disciplinary limitations, geopolit ical orientations, and a focus on the politics of race that characterize the use of English as a lingua franca all over the world.

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