11/11/2023 0 Comments Applied linguistics definition![]() Critical applied linguistics suggests therefore certain domains of inquiry-language and migration, workplace discrimination, anti-racist education, language revival, for example-but also insists that all domains of applied linguistics-classroom analysis, language testing, sign language interpreting, language and the law-need to take into account the inequitable operations of the social world, and to have the theoretical and practical tools to do so effectively. Whether it is critical text analysis, or an attempt to understand implications of the global spread of English, a central issue is always how a classroom, text, or conversation is related to broader social cultural and political relations. ![]() A key challenge for critical applied linguistics is therefore to find ways of understanding relations between, on the one hand, concepts and critiques of society, ideology, neoliberalism, colonialism, gender, racism, or sexuality and, on the other hand classroom utterances, translations, conversations, genres, second-language acquisition, media texts, and other common applied linguistic concerns. A central goal is to connect questions of domination (contingent and contextual effects of power), disparity (inequitable access to material and cultural goods), discrimination (ideological and discursive frames of exclusion), difference (constructions and realities of social and cultural distinction), and desire (operations of ideology, agency, identity, and transformation) to applied linguistic concerns. It brings a critical focus-where the critical is understood as social critique rather than critical thinking-to applied linguistic work. Critical applied linguistics is a field of inquiry and practice that can be understood in several ways. ![]()
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