What Is Critical in Language Studies?: Disclosing Social Inequalities and Injustice

ISBN-13: 9780367858025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 158 str.

Solange Maria de Barros; Danie Marcelo de Jesus

Opis

This volume examines the notion of criticality in language studies. Drawing on the work of the Frankfurt School — Adorno and Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas, among others — the essays in the volume examines a variety of linguistic contexts: from gender activism to web journalism, from the classroom to the open streets.

Spis treści

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