Exploring the nature of possible relationships between Integrational Linguistics and Southern Epistemologies, this volume examines various ways in which Integrational Linguistics can be used to support the decolonizing interests of Southern Epistemologies.

Sinfree B. Makoni currently teaches in the Department of Applied Linguistics and the African Studies Program at The Pennsylvania State University.

Deryn P. Verity is a Teaching Professor of Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University.

Anna Kaiper-Marquez is the Associate Director and Assistant Teaching Professor of the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy and the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at The Pennsylvania State University.

Preface: Linguistics and the Moral Compass; Introduction: Introducing Integrational Linguistics; 1. Edward Said, Roy Asked, and the Peasant Responded: Reflections on Peasants, Popular Culture and Intellectuals; 2. Three Critical Perspectives on the Ontology of Language; 3. Integrationism, Individualism and Personalism: The Politics of Essentialism; 4. A Clash of Linguistic Philosophies? Charles Goodwin's 'Co-Operative Action': An Integrationist Perspective; 5. Text Annotation: Examining Evidence for a Multisemiotic Instinct and the Intertextuality of the Sign in a Database of Pristine Self-Directed Communication; 6. The Semiological Implications of Knowledge-Ideologies: A Harrisian Perspective; 7. Rhetoric and Integrationism: In Search of Rapprochement; 8. Integrationism and Postcolonialism: Convergences or Divergences? An Integrational Discussion on Ethnocentricity and the (Post)colonial Translation Myth; 9. Integrationism and the Global South: Songs as Epistemic and Ontological Frameworks in Language Studies; 10. Words and Other Currencies; 11. Beyond IL from the Perspective of Languaging Without Languages