Texts and Practices provides an essential introduction to the theory and practice of Critical Discourse Analysis. Using insights from this challenging new method of linguistic analysis, the contributors to this book reveal the ways in which language can be used as a means of social control.
Understanding Language Teaching: From Method to Post-Method
This book traces the historical development of major language teaching methods in terms of theoretical principles and classroom procedures, and provides a critical evaluation of each. Drawing from seminal, foundational texts and from critical commentaries made by various scholars, Kumaravadivelu examines the profession's current transition from method to postmethod and, in the process, elucidates the relationship between theory, research, and practice. The chief objective is to help readers see the pattern that connects language, learning, teaching methods, and postmethod perspectives
This text brings together two significant domains of educational practice: foreign language education and critical pedagogy--linking them in a way that can help foreign language educators develop a critical awareness of the nature, purposes, and challenges facing foreign language pedagogy. Unique among texts in the field, this is the first to deal explicitly with the social, political, ideological, and economic aspects of language, language learning, and language teaching in our society and to connect the practice of foreign language education with these critical, and crucial, aspects of language and language use.
Product Description: Edited by language and communications expert Paul Cobley, this new Routledge Critical Dictionary is an accessible and invaluable key to the complex field of linguistics and semiotics. The first resource to combine these two closely-related areas, this new work takes full advantage of the Critical Dictionary format to open up the world of semiotics and linguistics for novices and to provide a useful ready-reference for more advanced reader. The 10 introductory essays are written by pace-setting figures in the field, and provide unique background to the 200+ A-Z entries that follow. Among the latter are entries on key individuals such as Bakhtin, Chomsky, Lacan, Saussure, William of Ockham and many others; concepts like abduction, chain of discourse, grapheme, metalanguage, philology and syntax; theories and schools including American structuralism, pragmaticism and Russian formalism; and much, much more.
Product Description: In spite of the considerable attention devoted to the third/ninth century by scholars of Arabic literature, credit for the elaboration of the notion of adab in its wider meaning of literary culture is given to and concentrated upon only a handful of writers. The disproportionate emphasis, within and outside the Arabic literary-historical and critical tradition, has been at the expense of certain crucial aspects of that tradition.
