Social Class in Applied LinguisticsIn this ground breaking new book David Block proposes a new working definition of social class in applied linguistics. Traditionally, research on language and identity has focused on aspects such as race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, religion and sexuality. Political economy, and social class, as an identity inscription, have been undervalued. This book argues that increasing socioeconomic inequality, which has come with the consolidation of neoliberal policies and practices worldwide, requires changes in how we think about identity and proposes that social class should be brought to the fore as a key construct. Social Class in Applied Linguistics begins with an in-depth theoretical discussion of social class before considering the extent to which social class has been a key construct in three general areas of applied linguistics- sociolinguistics, bi/multilingualism and second language acquisition and learning research. Throughout the book, Block suggests ways in which social class might be incorporated into future applied linguistics research. A critical read for postgraduate students and researchers in the areas of applied linguistics, language education and TESOL. |
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... interest in school activities. At times, these masculinities led to confrontations between groups and during my time at the school, I witnessed several fights involving 'Irish' and 'Mexican' boys (as they would have been label- led at ...
... interest in social class. However, it is always difficult to answer such questions, especially because trends in what interests groups like journalists and academics are never uniform as regards depth and intensity (different people ...
... interest groups will inevitably distort and bias state interventions ( particularly in democracies ) for their own benefit . ... — ( Harvey , 2005 : 2 ) There is a lot going on in this definition that is worthy of mention . First ...
... interests of big capital . Of course Marx and Engels arrived at this conclusion long ago , writing in The German Ideology about how the accumulation of private prop- erty by the bourgeoisie in capitalist societies means that ' the state ...
... interests, and in which the whole civil society of an epoch is epitomised' (Marx and Engels, 1998: 99). The last clause about how a society is 'epitomised' may be linked to what Marx and Engels wrote earlier in the same treatise about ...
Contents
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2 What is social class? | 24 |
3 Social class in sociolinguistics | 73 |
4 Social class in bimultilingualism research | 110 |
5 Social class in second language acquisition and learning | 146 |
Epilogue | 164 |
Goldthorpes class categories | 172 |
NSSEC analytic classes operational categories and subcategories 2010 | 173 |
Transcription conventions | 175 |
References | 176 |
Index | 191 |