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Canagarajah, Suresh – Applied Linguistics, 2022
This interview presents the celebrated Kenyan writer Ngugi's changing orientations in decolonizing language. After adopting a Marxist approach to language in the 1980s, he now adopts an embodied and ecological orientation from his indigenous Gikuyu tradition. He articulates the importance of vernaculars and multimodal art forms in social…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Social Systems, Diachronic Linguistics, African Languages