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Bruzos, Alberto – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2023
This article begins with an overview of the literature on language commodification and the Marxist critiques of this concept. I argue that, while these critiques have raised pertinent issues surrounding the concept of language commodification, they are limited by their reliance on Karl Polanyi's notion of fictitious commodification, which suggests…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Language Role, Language Attitudes
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Crump, Alison – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) scholars have recently drawn on critical race theory (CRT) to critique and understand the propagation of Whiteness as a norm associated with native English speakers. However, the area of language studies, more broadly defined, has yet to develop the same link with CRT. To this end, this…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning