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Alastair Pennycook – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
In a series of articles critical of aspects of the idea of translanguaging, MacSwan (e.g. 2022) has suggested that "deconstructivism" has derailed the translingual project. This paper draws attention to a number of weaknesses in this argument that are important for taking critical questions about language seriously. The term…
Descriptors: Museums, Code Switching (Language), Critical Theory, Teaching Methods
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Badwan, Khawla – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2021
Unmooring language is a proposal for a language-based social justice concept that aims to go beyond national and local epistemologies of language in place. This article contributes to current discussions in critical sociolinguistics about how to conceptualize language bearing in mind the primacy of mobility and fluidity. Drawing on folk…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Sociolinguistics, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries
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Reyes-Rodriguez, Antonio – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2008
Linguistically, political discourses have generally been discussed within qualitative approaches (e.g., Blackledge, 2005; Chilton, 2004; Chomsky, 2004; van Dijk, 2005; Wodak, 2002). This paper presents tools to design a quantitative research relating political speech with sociolinguistic variables. Notions such as Accommodation Theory (Giles &…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Research Methodology, Statistical Analysis, Pragmatics