Abstract
Commentary on “Omphile and his soccer ball: colonialism, methodology, translanguaging research”
Highlights
The paper provides a spirited defense of autoethnography as a legitimate viable anti-colonial methodology for sociolinguistic research, within the normative multilingual contexts that characterizes global south linguistic communities
The author concludes that using autoethnography allowed him to exhibit a community of practice where successful interaction does not rely on common shared codes, but rather on the willingness of interactants to participate in a common social practice, while expanding and contracting their available linguistic systems to accommodate each other’s linguistic systems
There is no doubt, as lucidly presented by this author, that autoethnography as a methodological approach allows for global south academics to tell their stories and experiences according to them and on their own terms with the added advantage of making research sense of our everyday world, the glaring challenges of this approach, those bothering on ethics have to be confronted and addressed rather than muted
Summary
The paper provides a spirited defense of autoethnography as a legitimate viable anti-colonial methodology for sociolinguistic research, within the normative multilingual contexts that characterizes global south linguistic communities. 14), the author considers translanguaging an appropriate framework within which to make theoretical sense of this encounter which he deems to be a reflection of the social reality of global south communities like the one he and Omphile find themselves in His defense of autoethnography is set against the acceptance of logical positivism as the foundation of supposedly sound social science research. There is no doubt, as lucidly presented by this author, that autoethnography as a methodological approach allows for global south academics to tell their stories and experiences according to them and on their own terms with the added advantage of making research sense of our everyday world, the glaring challenges of this approach, those bothering on ethics have to be confronted and addressed rather than muted
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