Re-Examining and Re-Envisioning Criticality in Language Studies: Theories and Praxis

Autor/inn/en	Kubota, Ryuko; Miller, Elizabeth R.
Titel	Re-Examining and Re-Envisioning Criticality in Language Studies: Theories and Praxis
Quelle	In: Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 14 (2017) 2-3, S.129-157 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1542-7587
DOI	10.1080/15427587.2017.1290500
Schlagwörter	Critical Theory; Language Research; Theory Practice Relationship; Postmodernism; Applied Linguistics; Neoliberalism; Guidelines; Social Systems; Social Theories; Feminism; Race; Foreign Policy; Power Structure; Teaching Methods; Marxian Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritische Theorie; Sprachforschung; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Postmoderne; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Richtlinien; Social system; Soziales System; Gesellschaftstheorie; Feminismus; Rasse; Abstammung; Außenpolitik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Marxism; Marxismus
Abstract	As critical perspectives in language studies have gained legitimacy and even mainstream status in applied linguistics, it is necessary to re-examine the meaning of criticality in language studies and to re-envision criticality for further development. The authors explore criticality from several theoretical perspectives as well as from the notion of praxis. They review three major theoretical threads--namely, postmodernist constructionism including poststructuralist theory, Marxist-influenced theories, and postcolonial theories--and examine how these frameworks have influenced critical applied linguistics and how their criticisms of other perspectives within the critical framework are historically, ideologically, and geopolitically implicated. Although these theories constitute the core of conceptual criticality, praxis is essential for critical enactment. The authors thus unpack the meaning of praxis and discuss how reflexivity, action, and transformation must inform the continuing (re)envisioning of criticality in contemporary society and institutions where it is necessary to confront neoliberalism as a new kind of domination (As Provided).
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