This article argues for an uncovering of the multitude of ways in which applied linguistics has functioned as an important and effective vehicle for White supremacy and empire, with its disciplinary roots embedded in assumptions about racial inequalities and racial hierarchies and, equally importantly, the concealment of these forms of racial discrimination which often manifest as innocuous language practices. In particular, the notion of objectivity has played a guiding role in reinscribing Whiteness in much applied linguistics theorizing and research within a global context of inequitable racial power and forms of knowledge production and transmission that are steeped in colonial reasoning. In this piece, the author considers what antiracism and decolonization mean within applied linguistics and asks: Is the discipline of applied linguistics irretrievably rooted in an ontology of race and empire? Or is an antiracist and decolonizing applied linguistics possible?

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反种族主义和去殖民化应用语言学是否可能？

本文主张揭示应用语言学作为白人至上和帝国的重要和有效工具的多种方式，其学科根源植根于关于种族不平等和种族等级的假设，同样重要的是，隐藏这些形式的种族歧视通常表现为无害的语言习惯。特别是，客观性的概念在种族权力不公平的全球背景下以及沉浸在殖民推理中的知识生产和传播形式的许多应用语言学理论和研究中，在重新定义白人方面发挥了指导作用。在这篇文章中，作者考虑了应用语言学中反种族主义和非殖民化的含义，并提出以下问题：应用语言学的学科是否不可挽回地植根于种族和帝国的本体论？或者反种族主义和去殖民化应用语言学是否可能？