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Direct linkPennycook, Alastair – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2004
Drawing analogies with the crisis in understandings of culture that led to the development of cultural studies, I suggest in this article that a similar crisis in the understanding of language may give an important impetus to the development of language studies. Arguing for the need to rethink the notion of language as commonly formulated in…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Role, Linguistic Performance, Language Usage
