The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South

Dr. Sinfree Makoni is Professor in Applied Linguistics and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has published extensively in Language Policy and Planning, Health Communication and Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies. His recent book co-authored with Alistair Pennycook, Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South, was shortlisted by the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Dr. Anna Kaiper-Marquez is an Associate Director and Assistant Teaching professor at the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy and the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests surround, adult literacy, English language learning, and domestic work worldwide.Dr. Lorato Mokwena is based in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research passion involves Linguistic Landscape with a niche focus on orality. Her latest publication explored how the use of oral route directions problematises the conceptual distinction between 'urban' and 'rural' spaces.