Ana Deumert, Professor, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town,Anne Storch, Professor, Institut f?r Afrikanistik und ?gyptologie, University of Cologne,Nick Shepherd, Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. She works within the broad field of sociocultural linguistics, with a strong transdisciplinary focus. Her current work explores the use of language in global political movements as well as the contributions that de-/anti-colonial thought can make to (socio)linguistic theory. Her many publications include Introducing Sociolinguistics (with Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, and William Leap; Benjamins, 2009) and Sociolinguistics and Mobile Communication (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). She is a recipient of the Neville Alexander Award for the Promotion of Multilingualism (2014) and the Humboldt Research Award (2016).

Anne Storch is Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Cologne. Her work combines contributions on cultural and social contexts of languages, the semiotics of linguistic practices, colonial linguistics, epistemic language and metalinguistics, and linguistic description. Her publications include Secret Manipulations (OUP, 2011), A Grammar of Luwo (Benjamins, 2014), and Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings (with Angelika Mietzner; Channel View, 2019), She is co-editor of the journal The Mouth and a recipient of the Leibniz Prize (2017).

Nick Shepherd is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria. His current projects are focused on walking as a form of embodied research practice, and on the politics and poetics of water in the Anthropocene. He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Brown University, the University of Basel, and Colgate University. His recent publications include After Ethics: Ancestral Voices and Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology (with Alejandro Haber; Springer, 2014) and The Mirror in the Ground: Archaeology, Photography and the Making of a Disciplinary Archive (Jonathan Ball, 2015).

1. Introduction: Colonial linguistics then and now, Ana Deumert and Anne Storch
Part I: In the Midst
2. Northern perspectives on language and society in India, Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi and S. Imtiaz Hasnain
3. Transcending the colonial? Colonial linguistics and George Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India, Rajend Mesthrie
4. Using lusitanization and creolization as frameworks to analyze historical and contemporary Cape Verde language policy and planning, Christine Severo and Sinfree Makoni
5. On colonization and 'awesome materiality'. A commentary, Nick Faraclas
Part II: Echoes, Traces
6. Tracing de-/colonial options in German Philology around 1900: The two faces of Hermann Paul (1846-1921), Ingo H. Warnke
7. War and grammar: Acoustic recordings with African prisoners of the First World War (1915-18), Anette Hoffmann
8. Accomplished works and facts. The family tree project of Africanistics, Anne Storch
9. Linguistics and language in the global economy of knowledge. A commentary, Raewyn Connell
Part III: On the Poetics of Iconoclasm
10. Researching lesser-used endangered languages: Exploring field and documentary linguistics' perspectives on language research, Bettina Migge
11. The missionary in the theatre of linguistics: Or, is a decolonial linguistics possible?, Ana Deumert
12. Language ideology and policy in a colonial and postcolonial context: The case of Egypt, Reem Bassiouney
13. The decolonizer iconoclast. A commentary, Ricardo Roque
Part IV: Sounds of Resistance
14. Jamaican postcolonial writing practices and metalinguistic discourses as a challenge to established norms and standards, Andrea Hollington
15. Language ideologies and attitudes towards Arabic in contemporary Iran, Pegah Faghiri
16. Decolonizing decolonization? Desiring pure language in Mali, Katharina Monz
17. Colonial creep, Christopher Stroud
18. Decolonial linguistics as paradigm shift. A commentary, Salikoko S. Mufwene
Part V: On Decoloniality
19. A grammar of decoloniality, Nick Shepherd
20. Walking decolonially with Nick Shepherd, Walter Mignolo