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In the current climate of extreme nationalism and fear-mongering, a new politics for a socially just world is needed more than ever. Featuring internationally-renowned scholars, Applied Linguistics and Politics explores how innovative theories, methodologies and pedagogies in applied linguistics can address the political challenges and issues arising in the 21st century.
Adopting a Gramscian theoretical framework, the five parts of this volume focus on the various ways in which the political is discursively and materially realized in its dialogic co-constructions within the media, the economy, culture and identity, affect, and education. Examining the power instantiations of sociolinguistic and semiotic practices in society from a variety of critical perspectives, this book questions how applied linguists can respond to, and challenge, current discourses of issues such as militarism, nationalism, Islamophobia, sexism, racism and the free market, and suggests future directions for research.
Making use of a range of methodologies from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, semiotics and political science, Applied Linguistics and Politics demonstrates how linguistics can intervene in the political and help mobilize and organize for an economically and socially just society.
Contents
Introduction, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
Part I. Media
1. Political Discourse in Post-Digital Societies, Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
2. Populism as a Mediatized Communicative Relation: The Birth of Algorithmic Populism, I.E.L.(Ico) Maly (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Part II. Economy
3. Audit as Genre, Migration Industries, and Neoliberalism's Uptakes, Alfonso Del Percio (University College London, UK)
4. The Politics of Migrant Economies: Applied Linguistics looking into Thai Massage in Vienna, Mi-Cha Flubacher (University of Vienna, Austria)
5. The Perceiving Subject of Irregular Employment: Applied Linguistics, Precarity, and Capitalism, Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore)
Part III. Culture and Identity
6. The Politics of Culture, Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
7. Biopolitics and Intersex Human Rights: A Role for Applied Linguistics, Brian W. King (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Part IV. Affect
8. Wash your Hands! Domestic Labour and the Affective Economy of Racial Capitalism, Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
9. Politics of Commemoration and Memory, John E. Richardson (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) and Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Part V. Education
10. Language, Pedagogy, and Discourses of Criticality in Late Capitalism, Carlos Soto (University of Hong Kong)
11. Organic Intellectuals or Traditional Intellectuals: Critical Discourse for Whom?, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Index
