Linguistic Entrepreneurship: Common Threads and a Critical Response

Autor/in	Kubota, Ryuko
Titel	Linguistic Entrepreneurship: Common Threads and a Critical Response
Quelle	In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 40 (2021) 2, S.251-259 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0167-8507
DOI	10.1515/multi-2020-0032
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Neoliberalism; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Commercialization; Entrepreneurship; Language Usage; Social Differences; Language Role; Political Influences; Language Attitudes; Writing for Publication; Researchers; Language of Instruction; Social Mobility; Language Minorities; Universities; Socioeconomic Status; College Faculty; Multilingualism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Unternehmungsgeist; Sprachgebrauch; Sozialer Unterschied; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Sprachverhalten; Researcher; Forscher; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Soziale Mobilität; Sprachminderheit; University; Universität; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Fakultät; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus
Abstract	The impact of neoliberalism on language education has recently attracted scholars' attention. Linguistic entrepreneurship is a conceptual lens through which neoliberal implications for language learning and use can be investigated. This commentary offers comments on common threads of themes running through the four articles in this special issue. While neoliberal ideas provide people with hopes and desires to socioeconomically succeed through management of their linguistic resources, the neoliberal system reproduces inequalities for language learners, teachers, and users as well as for multiple languages. However, the perceived superior status of English that often serves as the foundation for linguistic entrepreneurship is considered to be a social imagination, given the complexity of global geopolitics and the multiple directions of global human mobility. Also, the neoliberal engagement with linguistic entrepreneurship-such as commodified language learning or writing in English for academic publication-often deviates from the genuine aims of learning and research. Such deviation also applies to our own scholarly activities. This recognition encourages us to explore how subversive actions can be made possible for not only language learners/users but also researchers ourselves. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01