Full Description
This volume examines the notion of criticality in language studies.
Drawing on the work of the Frankfurt School - Adorno, Habermas, Horkheimer, and Marcuse, among others - the chapters in the volume examine a variety of linguistic contexts: from gender activism to web journalism, from the classroom to the open streets. It also presents theoretical and methodological guidelines to researchers interested in
• Expanding their critical outlook for meaning brought on by the notion of criticality in contemporary language studies.
• Understanding criticality in languages through historical, political, and social perspectives.
• Using linguistics and language studies as tools to dissect and disclose social injustices.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of language studies and linguistics, philosophy, politics, and sociology and social policy.
Contents
Introduction PART I Critical emancipatory research 1 Critical emancipatory research: a tool for social transformation PART II Inclusive education: a critical perspective 2 Gender, discourse, and language teaching: critical questions and resistance 3 Teachers' disempowerment and inclusive education: a critical realist view 4 Towards critical theories and education: an easy-to-read introduction 5 Critical ethnography and dialogic reflection in student-led language research PART III Critical discourse studies 6 What does 'critical' mean in Latin America? An overview of critical discourse studies in our region 7 Critical transversality in multimodal and multimedia discourse studies 8 Human rights for whom? Public and spatial management of urban poverty: a critique 9 About the discourse of the necessity of military intervention in Brazil for the 'restoration of order in the country': analytical notes 10 The virtue of being obstructive: critique and the signifying machinery
