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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... Discourse and Transnational Identities conference (Hong Kong, May 2011); two English in Europe conferences (Sheffield, April 2012; Copenhagen, April 2013); the International Colloquium on Language Education – Questions of Identity ...
... discourse on the 'left' has been awash in 'postmodern' platitudes that sublimate class and valorize uncritical and fetishized notions of 'difference' while marginalizing socialist alternatives to the social universe of capital. (McLaren ...
... discourses” does not betoken the absence of class realities and their effects in shaping the life-conditions and consciousness of the people who come within their field of force' (Wood, 1998: 97). As hooks writes, 'class matters', and ...
... discourses around the individual that have become so pervasive around the world. As Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert (2006: 15) put it: '[f]rom Singapore to Tokyo, from Seoul to Sydney, the individualist creed of the new individualism ...
... discourses in favour of neoliberal policy and practice, it is little wonder that in recent years people around the world have been living their lives according to the acronym TINA (there is no alternative). Indeed, even in the current ...
Contents
What is Social Class? | |
Social Class in Sociolinguistics | |
Social Class in BiMultilingualism Research | |
Social Class in Second Language Acquisition and Learning | |
Epilogue | |
Index | |