Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction

by Pennycook, Alastair

• ISBN13: 9780805837926
• ISBN10: 0805837922
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview, highlighting problems, debates, and competing views in language education, literacy, discourse analysis, language in the workplace, translation and other language-related domains. Covering both critical theory and domains of practice, the book is organized around five themes: the politics of knowledge, the politics of language, the politics of texts, the politics of pedagogy, and the politics of difference. It is an important text for anyone involved in applied linguistics, TESOL, language education, or other language-related fields.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Introducing Critical Applied Linguistics	1	(23)
Critical applied linguistic concerns	2	(8)
Domains of Critical applied linguistics	10	(10)
Conclusion: Why critical applied linguistics?	20	(4)
The Politics of Knowledge	24	(22)
Critical work and animosity to theory	25	(2)
Knowledge of politics and the politics of knowledge	27	(16)
Liberal ostrichism	29	(4)
Anarcho-autonomy	33	(3)
Emancipatory modernism	36	(5)
Critical applied linguistics as problematizing practice	41	(2)
Conclusion: Outflanking Marx from the left	43	(3)
The Politics of Language	46	(28)
Sociolinguistics and power	47	(8)
Liberal sociolinguistics	48	(7)
Language planning and politics: The global spread of English	55	(10)
Liberal complementarity	56	(3)
Language ecology, language rights, and linguistic imperialism	59	(6)
Postcolonialism and resistance	65	(6)
Colonialism and postcolonialism	66	(2)
Resistance, appropriation, and third spaces	68	(3)
Conclusion: Toward a postcolonial performative view of language	71	(3)
The Politics of Text	74	(40)
Critical literacy	75	(3)
Literacies as social practices	76	(2)
Critical discourse analysis	78	(4)
Ideology, discourse, truth, and power	82	(12)
Knowledge claims and truth	84	(1)
Order and disorder	85	(4)
The nonmaterial base of discourse	89	(4)
Production and reception	93	(1)
Critical language awareness and the genres of power	94	(6)
Critical literacy and voice: The word and the world	100	(4)
From Poststructuralism to Postlinguistics	104	(6)
Toward a postlinguistics	108	(2)
Conclusion; Toward an Applied Postlinguistics	110	(4)
The Politics of Pedagogy	114	(27)
Classrooms in context	115	(2)
Structure, agency, determinism, and resistance	117	(4)
Social and cultural reproduction in schooling	121	(9)
Bourdieu and forms of capital	123	(3)
Resistance and change	126	(4)
Critical pedagogy	130	(3)
Education, postmodernism, and ethics	133	(5)
Postmodernism and ethics	136	(2)
Toward a postcritical pedagogy	138	(3)
The Politics of Difference	141	(23)
Difference, identity, and language learning	143	(8)
Identity and subjectivity	145	(6)
Language, gender, sexuality, and difference	151	(6)
Dominance and difference	151	(4)
Performing gender through language	155	(2)
Dealing with difference: Inclusivity, issues, and engagement	157	(5)
Toward engaged research	160	(2)
Conclusion: Embodied differences	162	(2)
Applied Linguistics With an Attitude	164	(15)
Critical themes	165	(3)
Guidelines for a critical praxis	168	(5)
Critical notes for the fridge door	171	(2)
Critical applied postlinguistics, Postcritical applied linguistics, or applied linguistics with an attitude	173	(6)
References	179	(16)
Author Index	195	(4)
Subject Index	199