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Discourses of Identity Language Learning, Teaching, and Reclamation Perspectives in Japan
This edited book draws on research on identity in language education to present a detailed and multi-faceted study of identity in language learning,... -
Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice
This chapter details the theoretical frameworks involved in the discourse study of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression. The study is... -
Introduction
This introductory chapter provides a concise overview of the history of migration in the United States. It also discusses the ways in which the... -
Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis: Investigating Representations of Knowledge and Knowledge-Related Subjectivities in an Online Forum on HPV Vaccination
Poststructuralist discourse analysis (PDA) that draws on Foucauldian discourse theory enables researchers to analyse cultural aspects of health... -
The Structure–Agency Debate and Its Relevance to AL
Chapters 1 and 2 identified conceptual and methodological problems with AL,... -
Two Disciplines: Linguistics and Sociology
Disciplines organise academic knowledge and institutions. Professors belong to at least one discipline. They also contribute to sub-disciplinary... -
Power and Personal Experience in Online Anonymous Communities: A Corpus-Driven Exploration
The paper presents an innovative corpus study on Personal Experience as a pragmatic-discursive resource to express power in anonymous online...
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The Need for a Renewed Applied Linguistics
This chapter provides justification for the need for a renewed AL by critically assessing successionism and interpretivism, two broad empiricist... -
Kenneth King’s Metapoiesis as a Form of Intertext
The article is devoted to the reflection of the poststructuralist concept of intertextuality in postmodern dance, or rather, in the choreography of... -
Complex Dynamic System Theory and Applied Linguistics
In the previous chapter, I summarize some of the main principles of CDST deemed most relevant to the overall discussion in this volume, underscored... -
Does Islam belong to Germany?
The question of whether or not Islam belongs to Germany has been discussed in Germany in its explicit form since 2010. The then Minister of the... -
Foregrounding the Ordinariness of Translingualism in Philippine Education: Towards Equitable Assessment for Multilingual Learners
Most Filipinos are multilingual and translanguaging is ubiquitous in all aspects of Philippine society, including in education. And yet, many... -
Introduction: Intersectionality as a Lived Experience
The introductory chapter presents the research topic of language-related issues of ethnic/national (through the book ethnic and national will be used... -
Framing, Ideology, and the Negotiation of Professional Identities Among Non-Japanese EFL Teachers in Japan
Native-speakerism is an ideology in English language teaching which privileges the models of English, the teachers of English, and the pedagogic... -
Meanings & Co. The Interdisciplinarity of Communication, Semiotics and Multimodality
This book explores the interdisciplinarity of semiotics and communication studies, comprising both theoretical explorations and semiotic applications...
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Pro-European and Anti-European Attitudes: Linguistic Analyses of the Discourse on Europe Based on German and French Newspapers
This paper is committed to discourse analysis in the tradition of Foucault (FDA). The methodological basis is formed by the work of discourse... -
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Advancing the Linguistic Turn: Premises of Conceptual Work
Discourse has become a buzzword in the social sciences, and discourse analyses proliferate in European integration studies, too. This chapter... -
Gendered Assumptions in the Framing of Fitness in Sports Nonfiction for Young Adult Readers
This Critical Comparative Content Analysis employs theories of poststructuralist feminism to examine two versions of a nonfiction fitness text for...