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Hamm-Rodríguez, Molly; Medina, Carmen Liliana – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This essay explores the language of social protest in two geographic and diasporic locations in the Caribbean (Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic) with long and ongoing histories of colonialism and imperialism. We analyze social media and digital mobilizing to examine how, in the midst of social protest, linguistic and semiotic tools indexed…
Descriptors: Activism, Group Unity, Geographic Regions, Postcolonialism
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Lee, Carmen – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This paper probes alternative meanings and processes for decolonizing English that arise from the particular geopolitical histories and identities of Hong Kong and engagement with political and translingual activism. I illustrate the positioning and tension between English, 'Kongish' (a mix of English and localized linguistic resources in Hong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Chinese, Decolonization