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ERIC Number: EJ1093674
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-1542-7587
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The Politics of Intentionality in Englishes: Provincializing Capitalization
Lee, Jerry Won
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, v13 n1 p46-71 2016
This article theorizes how the privileging of "intentional" deviations from ostensibly mainstream Englishes represents a form of epistemic violence that replicates and sustains the logics of coloniality, presuming the inherent and chronic inferiority of nonmainstream cultural forms, practices, and institutions. In response, this article considers the potentiality of errors in peripheralized Englishes as moments of disinvention through an extended analysis of an artifact that represents an enunciation of political and linguistic decoloniality. Focusing on the orthographic feature of capitalization as a case in point, I enact the practice of provincialization toward exposing the inadequacies of monofunctional orthography for an inherently and increasingly plurilithic language like English. To conclude, I use alternatively capitalized English as a reconstituted and decolonizing expressive mode.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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