Critical Realism in Applied Linguistics / edited by Jérémie Bouchard, Karin Zotzmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouchard, Jérémie, editor.

Zotzmann, Karin, editor.

Series:

Cambridge Applied Linguistics.

Cambridge Applied Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Applied linguistics.

Critical realism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Through conceptual and empirical means, this timely volume looks at how critical realism, a specific approach to the philosophy of science, helps uncover and refine assumptions about what constitutes valid knowledge in applied linguistics, how scholars can create it, and how applied linguistics can improve as an interdisciplinary strand of the social sciences. With contributions from leading and up-and-coming scholars in the field, the book covers a range of topics, from language, language learning and teaching, language curriculum and programmes, evaluation and assessment, academic writing, discourse, beliefs, values, truth, resilience, ethnicity, social class, as well as ideologies and systems of social inequality including anthropocentrism, racism, linguicism, sexism, patriarchy, and neoliberalism. Exploring the philosophical basis of applied linguistics research, it is essential reading for academic scholars and graduate students in applied linguistics, as well as social scientists interested in language-related issues and social issues in which language plays a central role.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Imprints page

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I.1 Fundamental Principles of Critical Realism

I.2 The Chapters

References

1 Critical Realism: A Personal Journey and Application

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Some Background: My Self-identification as a Post-structuralist

1.3 An Epistemological Break

1.4 My Understanding of CR

1.5 Language, Semiotic Assemblages, Semiosis, and Structuring Spheres

1.6 The Case of Nick Fuentes's Misogyny: 'Your Body, My Choice'

1.7 The Communicative Event: Semiosis as Actualised and as an Empirical Event

1.8 Patriarchy and Misogyny in the Manosphere

1.9 Conclusion

2 Critical Realism and Research on Students' Self-efficacy Beliefs

2.1 Background to and Rationale for This Study

2.2 Research on International Students and Their Academic Performance in EMI Contexts

2.3 Previous Research on Self-efficacy

2.4 A CR Perspective on Self-efficacy

2.5 Interview Analysis

2.6 Discussion and Conclusion

3 Structure, Culture, Agency, and English Language Learning among Undergraduate Students in Cancun

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Structure and Culture

3.3 Agency

3.4 The Structure-Culture-Agency Interaction

3.5 The Study

3.6 Discussion

3.7 Conclusion

4 Realist Evaluation of ESP Curriculum Implementation

4.1 Introduction

4.2 An Overview of Evaluation Research in Education

4.3 The Relation between Realist Evaluation and Critical Realism

4.4 The Study

4.5 Discussion

4.6 Conclusion

5 What Makes Academic Writing Human(e): A Critical Realist Response

5.1 Staging the Concerns

5.2 Emancipation: On Being Human(e).

5.3 Construals of EWAD: Towards the Avoidance of Harm

5.4 Knowledge and Truth in Critical Realism

5.5 Explanatory Critique: Language as Power

5.6 Final Remarks

6 Empiricism in Interpretivist Sociolinguistics

6.1 Introduction: The Enduring Heritage of Empiricism

6.2 Interpretivist Sociolinguistics and the Epistemic Fallacy

6.3 Raciolinguistics

6.4 Untangling Conceptual Abstractions

6.5 The (Uncomfortable) Issue of Universalism as an Emancipatory Value

6.6 Critical Realism and the Study of Language Use in Context

6.7 Conclusion

7 Counter-Voices of Resilience, through a Critical Realist Lens

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Human Resilience: Making Sense of Language and Discourse

7.3 Tell Me Your Story: Revisiting Resilience through Critical Realist-Informed Discursive Psychology

7.4 Examples of Counter-Voices through an Applied Critical Realist Lens

7.5 Discussion: A Way Forward

8 Critical Realist Reflections on Race Pedagogy in a University English for Liberal Arts Course in Japan: A Domain Theory Perspective

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Critical Pedagogies of Anti-racism in an Age of Global Racial Reckoning

8.3 Global Raciality and Implications for Course Design

8.4 Race, Ethnicity and Identity in the Twenty-First Century: Design, Outcomes, and Delivery

8.5 Course Learning Experiences

8.6 Discussion

8.7 Conclusion

9 A Non-anthropocentric Realism?

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Language and Reality

9.3 Language as Semiosis

9.4 A Non-foundational, 'Practical Realism'

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781009572859

1-009-57286-5

1-009-57288-1

1-009-57285-7

OCLC:

1564132222