NOTES FOR A POSSIBLE DECOLONIZATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: ANALYTICAL-METHODOLOGICAL TENSIONS

TENSIONES ANALÍTICO-METODOLÓGICAS

Abstract

This work offers a framework of analysis around the regulations that linguistic coloniality imputes is nothing more than a critical appeal to the dynamics of knowledge production and the type of research designs sanctioned by linguistics as a disciplinary domain, especially, of the articulations of applied linguistics. It is also a 'critique' of reason promoted by linguistics as an object and field of research. In this sense, linguistic coloniality is not only a process of negation of the word, but also a set of existential mechanisms of certain groups built outside of history. By castrating the language existential impoverishment is aroused. Such a process acts by exceeding the ontological figuration derived from indigenous peoples, rather, it amalgamates a heterogeneity of specific groups that can be better represented through the notion of subalternity. In it, two points of interest converge: a) linguistic colonization through the subalternization and subjugation of certain existential figures through the race/language binomial and b) the colonization of the word conceived as the process of subjugation and use of the same to circulate in the structures of the known world-system. The processes of linguistic denial inhabit the register of the ethics of incommensurability, that is, affirming that the object or multiple objects of composition of the discourse are different in terms of the attributions of their preaching.