Applied Linguistics and Politics
Published on 21. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-350-24732-1 (ISBN)
Description
In the current climate of extreme nationalism and fear-mongering, a new politics for a socially just world is needed more than ever. Featuring internationally-renowned scholars, Applied Linguistics and Politics explores how innovative theories, methodologies and pedagogies in applied linguistics can address the political challenges and issues arising in the 21st century.
Adopting a Gramscian theoretical framework, the five parts of this volume focus on the various ways in which the political is discursively and materially realized in its dialogic co-constructions within the media, the economy, culture and identity, affect, and education. Examining the power instantiations of sociolinguistic and semiotic practices in society from a variety of critical perspectives, this book questions how applied linguists can respond to, and challenge, current discourses of issues such as militarism, nationalism, Islamophobia, sexism, racism and the free market, and suggests future directions for research.
Making use of a range of methodologies from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, semiotics and political science, Applied Linguistics and Politics demonstrates how linguistics can intervene in the political and help mobilize and organize for an economically and socially just society.
Adopting a Gramscian theoretical framework, the five parts of this volume focus on the various ways in which the political is discursively and materially realized in its dialogic co-constructions within the media, the economy, culture and identity, affect, and education. Examining the power instantiations of sociolinguistic and semiotic practices in society from a variety of critical perspectives, this book questions how applied linguists can respond to, and challenge, current discourses of issues such as militarism, nationalism, Islamophobia, sexism, racism and the free market, and suggests future directions for research.
Making use of a range of methodologies from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, semiotics and political science, Applied Linguistics and Politics demonstrates how linguistics can intervene in the political and help mobilize and organize for an economically and socially just society.
Reviews / Votes
This excellent volume brings together an impressive assembly of scholars from around the world to explore a range of contexts relevant to the study of language and politics, from media, to economics, to education. Each contribution stands as a dramatic reminder of the relevance of Applied Linguistics to the precarious political moment we find ourselves in. * Rodney H. Jones, Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Reading, UK * At a time when many of us are bewildered and dismayed by the political terrain we find ourselves navigating, Chun has assembled an international gathering of extraordinary, insightful scholars, including the now-late Jan Blommaert, who offer analyses of languaging and discourse practices across a shockingly broad array of (often under-researched) communities and realms and shed much-needed clarity on the crucial question of how the work of applied linguists can change the political conditions of lives. * Suhanthie Motha, Associate Professor, English Department, University of Washington, USA *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
542 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-24732-1 (9781350247321)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Christian W. Chun is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.
Content
Introduction, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
Part I. Media
1. Political Discourse in Post-Digital Societies, Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
2. Populism as a Mediatized Communicative Relation: The Birth of Algorithmic Populism, I.E.L.(Ico) Maly (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Part II. Economy
3. Audit as Genre, Migration Industries, and Neoliberalism's Uptakes, Alfonso Del Percio (University College London, UK)
4. The Politics of Migrant Economies: Applied Linguistics looking into Thai Massage in Vienna, Mi-Cha Flubacher (University of Vienna, Austria)
5. The Perceiving Subject of Irregular Employment: Applied Linguistics, Precarity, and Capitalism, Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore)
Part III. Culture and Identity
6. The Politics of Culture, Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
7. Biopolitics and Intersex Human Rights: A Role for Applied Linguistics, Brian W. King (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Part IV. Affect
8. Wash your Hands! Domestic Labour and the Affective Economy of Racial Capitalism, Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
9. Politics of Commemoration and Memory, John E. Richardson (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) and Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Part V. Education
10. Language, Pedagogy, and Discourses of Criticality in Late Capitalism, Carlos Soto (University of Hong Kong)
11. Organic Intellectuals or Traditional Intellectuals: Critical Discourse for Whom?, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Index
Part I. Media
1. Political Discourse in Post-Digital Societies, Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
2. Populism as a Mediatized Communicative Relation: The Birth of Algorithmic Populism, I.E.L.(Ico) Maly (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Part II. Economy
3. Audit as Genre, Migration Industries, and Neoliberalism's Uptakes, Alfonso Del Percio (University College London, UK)
4. The Politics of Migrant Economies: Applied Linguistics looking into Thai Massage in Vienna, Mi-Cha Flubacher (University of Vienna, Austria)
5. The Perceiving Subject of Irregular Employment: Applied Linguistics, Precarity, and Capitalism, Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore)
Part III. Culture and Identity
6. The Politics of Culture, Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
7. Biopolitics and Intersex Human Rights: A Role for Applied Linguistics, Brian W. King (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Part IV. Affect
8. Wash your Hands! Domestic Labour and the Affective Economy of Racial Capitalism, Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
9. Politics of Commemoration and Memory, John E. Richardson (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) and Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Part V. Education
10. Language, Pedagogy, and Discourses of Criticality in Late Capitalism, Carlos Soto (University of Hong Kong)
11. Organic Intellectuals or Traditional Intellectuals: Critical Discourse for Whom?, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Index