Analyzing the Concept and Field of Inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca from a Decolonial Perspective
Recent epistemological and ontological revisions demonstrate a change within the elf geopolitics of knowledge as voices from the global South begin to claim themselves as knowledge producers within a field strongly marked by the European hegemony. This article aims at analyzing the concept and fiel...
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Recent epistemological and ontological revisions demonstrate a change within the elf geopolitics of knowledge as voices from the global South begin to claim themselves as knowledge producers within a field strongly marked by the European hegemony. This article aims at analyzing the concept and field of inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) from a decolonial perspective. Founded on the work of one the authors and departing from the decolonial exercise of identification-interrogation-interruption, the article identifies the main ELF tenets, brings up different voices in the field, and interrogates who these voices belong to, and where they come from. Findings show a complex weave of meanings still marked by coloniality traces in which hegemonic European views place themselves as hybris del punto cero despite the multiplicity of elf views and practices all over the globe. The authors advocate for attentive and critical reading of elf, particularly, with regards to where knowledge is generated and who generates such knowledge if one wishes to delink from self-assured global north elf epistemologies. They also propose a decolonial praxis in the reading of elf as a pre-condition towards the interruption of coloniality.
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| spelling | doaj.art-f6490a66c5e74a6492cc418ea27ab8bf2022-12-22T03:17:12ZengUniversidad de AntioquiaIkala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura0123-34322145-566X2022-09-0127310.17533/udea.ikala.v27n3a14Analyzing the Concept and Field of Inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca from a Decolonial PerspectiveGabriela da Costa Rosa0Ana Paula Duboc1Universidade de São PauloUniversidade de São Paulo Recent epistemological and ontological revisions demonstrate a change within the elf geopolitics of knowledge as voices from the global South begin to claim themselves as knowledge producers within a field strongly marked by the European hegemony. This article aims at analyzing the concept and field of inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) from a decolonial perspective. Founded on the work of one the authors and departing from the decolonial exercise of identification-interrogation-interruption, the article identifies the main ELF tenets, brings up different voices in the field, and interrogates who these voices belong to, and where they come from. Findings show a complex weave of meanings still marked by coloniality traces in which hegemonic European views place themselves as hybris del punto cero despite the multiplicity of elf views and practices all over the globe. The authors advocate for attentive and critical reading of elf, particularly, with regards to where knowledge is generated and who generates such knowledge if one wishes to delink from self-assured global north elf epistemologies. They also propose a decolonial praxis in the reading of elf as a pre-condition towards the interruption of coloniality. https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/ikala/article/view/349003ELFdecolonialitycolonialitygeopolitics of knowledgepunto cerodecolonial praxis |
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| title | Analyzing the Concept and Field of Inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca from a Decolonial Perspective |
| title_full | Analyzing the Concept and Field of Inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca from a Decolonial Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Analyzing the Concept and Field of Inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca from a Decolonial Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analyzing the Concept and Field of Inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca from a Decolonial Perspective |
| title_short | Analyzing the Concept and Field of Inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca from a Decolonial Perspective |
| title_sort | analyzing the concept and field of inquiry of english as a lingua franca from a decolonial perspective |
| topic | ELF decoloniality coloniality geopolitics of knowledge punto cero decolonial praxis |
| url | https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/ikala/article/view/349003 |
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