Christian W Chun
Biographic Data
| ID | 453898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian W Chun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian W |
| FAMILY NAME | Chun |
| SIGNATURE | CHUN C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3438-4156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reinventing Critical Applied Linguistics in Difficult Times?
With the onset of the global pandemic in 2020, and the re‐emergence of fascism and nationalism around the world, what does being ‘critical’ mean for applied linguists in these times of crisis? In this chapter, I highlight recent research re‐contextualizing criticality in our field and raise several questions with the aim of furthering dialogues and directions in how we can make our research and teaching practices resonate more with not only langu…
Global English and Political Economy
For years in applied linguistics, the worldwide spread of a dominant standardized English language has been often associated and contextualized with the terms ‘globalization’ and ‘imperialism’ (e.g. Block 2008; Bruthiaux 2008; Canagarajah 1999; Dewey 2007; Kumaravadivelu 2006; Pennycook 2010; Phillipson 2001). In addition, ‘neoliberalism’ has also now been used in analyzing and identifying the shifting dynamics of English language institutional t…
I ain’t your f*cking Model Minority! Indexical orders of ‘Asianness’, class, and heteronormative masculinity
By inscribing and ascribing particular indexical signifiers to people while ignoring and/or dismissing actual individual performative enactments and self-identifications, neoliberal multicultural discourses, in claiming tolerance and acceptance, frame racialized people as “an essentialized and totalized unit that is perceived to have little or no internal variation” (Ladson-Billings, Gloria. 2000. Racialized discourses and ethnic epistemologies. …
English Language Teaching and Resurgent Nationalism: What is to be Done
When politicians, media pundits, academics, and everyday people mention the word, “nationalism”, what do they mean by it? Is it akin to “patriotism” with loving and believing in one's “own” country because of its “uniqueness”? Its glorious past, and its promise of a better future? That one's country is either superior with its culture and language than any other country, or if not, it will eventually be by climbing its way to the top over others,…
A World without Capitalism: Alternative Discourses, Spaces, and Imaginaries
In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the ways in which identities, discourses, and topographies of both capitalist and anti-capitalist imaginaries and realities are embodied in the everyday practices of people. A World without Capitalism? is a sociolinguistic ethnography that explores the heretofore limited research in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics on the discursive and materialized representations and enactments of capitalism. Eng…
The return of the ‘Yellow Peril’: The fear of getting sick from the Other
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EAP Students Co‐constructing Alternative Narratives: Classroom Discursive Representations of Islam and Democracy
Little research has been done exploring how Islam has been mediated by English language teachers and learners in the classroom through the prism of dominant discourses in social circulation. Drawing on an ethnographic English for academic purposes ( EAP ) classroom case study, this article explores how particular meanings of Islam were framed and challenged in this classroom context by examining how an instructor and her two Muslim students engag…
Language, discourse, and class: What's next for sociolinguistics
Drawing from the various theoretical constructs and analyses of class in sociology, economics, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics, I discuss a number of issues regarding class and possible future research avenues for sociolinguists. These include addressing and exploring how to move beyond the static categorical groupings of class membership, including those of researchers themselves in their work on class, appraising the relevance and utilit…
Using Gramsci: A New Approach , by Michele Filippini
This review of Michele Filippini’s Using Gramsci: A New Approach examines the book not from the perspective of a trained political scientist or economist but rather from that of an applied linguist interested in exploring and developing alternative ethnographic and pedagogic approaches able to utilize the Gramscian frameworks of common-sense and good-sense beliefs, particularly as these approaches pertain to how people view the role of capitalism…
The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense
The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense
Since the global economic crisis of 2007–2008, ‘capitalism’ has been the topic of widespread general discussion in both mainstream and social media. In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the discourses of capitalism taken up by people in their responses to a street art installation created by Steve Lambert, entitled Capitalism Works for Me! In doing so, he considers several key questions, including: How do everyday people view and make sense o…
Addressing Racialized Multicultural Discourses in an EAP Textbook: Working Toward a Critical Pedagogies Approach
Racialized multicultural discourses emerge in the TESOL classroom via textbook representations of immigrant success stories and perceived racial and cultural differences among students. Although liberal multicultural discourses may be well intentioned, these discourses warrant closer examination for the ways in which they can essentialize cultural identities and enact power dynamics of who is defining and who is being defined. Drawing on an ethno…
Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park
In this article, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a pro…
Sarah Benesch: Considering Emotions in Critical English Language Teaching: Theories and Praxis
Since the advent of the critical turn in Applied Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), researchers have addressed previously ignored or glossed over issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, cultural politics, and identity in the language classroom. Curiously, the issue of emotion in language teaching and learning, which would seem to be an integral part of the aforementioned constructs in a person’s identificat…
Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park
In this article, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a pro…
The â Neoliberal Citizenâ
The Multimodalities of Globalization: Teaching a YouTube Video in an EAP Classroom
This article examines the ways in which a multimodal text—a YouTube video on globalization and business—was mediated in two English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classrooms, and how these mediations shaped the instructor’s and her students’ meaning-making in specific ways. I first explore the complex multimodal discourses involved with this particular video and present my own reading of it. In addressing the instructor’s and students’ engagements w…
Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English‐Language Learners: Teaching Maus
Graphic novels can be used in the secondary school classroom as part of a multiliteracies approach to help develop critical literacies of English‐language learner (ELL) students. One particular graphic novel, Maus, is discussed as a possible teaching resource. Intellectually substantive graphic novels that foreground racism and immigrant otherness often resonate with ELL students. These texts' multimodalities along with their engaging content ref…
Research in the Modern Language Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (Oise/UT)
The Modern Language Centre addresses a broad spectrum of theoretical and practical issues related to second and minority language teaching and learning. Since its foundation in 1968, the quality and range of the Centre's graduate studies programs, research, and development projects and field and dissemination services have brought it both national and international recognition. Our work focuses on curriculum, instruction, and policies for educati…
Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park
In this article, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a pro…
Language, discourse, and class: What's next for sociolinguistics
Drawing from the various theoretical constructs and analyses of class in sociology, economics, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics, I discuss a number of issues regarding class and possible future research avenues for sociolinguists. These include addressing and exploring how to move beyond the static categorical groupings of class membership, including those of researchers themselves in their work on class, appraising the relevance and utilit…
Addressing Racialized Multicultural Discourses in an EAP Textbook: Working Toward a Critical Pedagogies Approach
Racialized multicultural discourses emerge in the TESOL classroom via textbook representations of immigrant success stories and perceived racial and cultural differences among students. Although liberal multicultural discourses may be well intentioned, these discourses warrant closer examination for the ways in which they can essentialize cultural identities and enact power dynamics of who is defining and who is being defined. Drawing on an ethno…
Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park
In this article, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a pro…
The return of the ‘Yellow Peril’: The fear of getting sick from the Other
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EAP Students Co‐constructing Alternative Narratives: Classroom Discursive Representations of Islam and Democracy
Little research has been done exploring how Islam has been mediated by English language teachers and learners in the classroom through the prism of dominant discourses in social circulation. Drawing on an ethnographic English for academic purposes ( EAP ) classroom case study, this article explores how particular meanings of Islam were framed and challenged in this classroom context by examining how an instructor and her two Muslim students engag…
Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English‐Language Learners: Teaching Maus
Graphic novels can be used in the secondary school classroom as part of a multiliteracies approach to help develop critical literacies of English‐language learner (ELL) students. One particular graphic novel, Maus, is discussed as a possible teaching resource. Intellectually substantive graphic novels that foreground racism and immigrant otherness often resonate with ELL students. These texts' multimodalities along with their engaging content ref…
Research in the Modern Language Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (Oise/UT)
The Modern Language Centre addresses a broad spectrum of theoretical and practical issues related to second and minority language teaching and learning. Since its foundation in 1968, the quality and range of the Centre's graduate studies programs, research, and development projects and field and dissemination services have brought it both national and international recognition. Our work focuses on curriculum, instruction, and policies for educati…
The Multimodalities of Globalization: Teaching a YouTube Video in an EAP Classroom
This article examines the ways in which a multimodal text—a YouTube video on globalization and business—was mediated in two English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classrooms, and how these mediations shaped the instructor’s and her students’ meaning-making in specific ways. I first explore the complex multimodal discourses involved with this particular video and present my own reading of it. In addressing the instructor’s and students’ engagements w…
The â Neoliberal Citizenâ
Sarah Benesch: Considering Emotions in Critical English Language Teaching: Theories and Praxis
Since the advent of the critical turn in Applied Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), researchers have addressed previously ignored or glossed over issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, cultural politics, and identity in the language classroom. Curiously, the issue of emotion in language teaching and learning, which would seem to be an integral part of the aforementioned constructs in a person’s identificat…
Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park
In this article, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a pro…
Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park
In this article, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a pro…
Addressing Racialized Multicultural Discourses in an EAP Textbook: Working Toward a Critical Pedagogies Approach
Racialized multicultural discourses emerge in the TESOL classroom via textbook representations of immigrant success stories and perceived racial and cultural differences among students. Although liberal multicultural discourses may be well intentioned, these discourses warrant closer examination for the ways in which they can essentialize cultural identities and enact power dynamics of who is defining and who is being defined. Drawing on an ethno…
The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense
The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense
Since the global economic crisis of 2007–2008, ‘capitalism’ has been the topic of widespread general discussion in both mainstream and social media. In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the discourses of capitalism taken up by people in their responses to a street art installation created by Steve Lambert, entitled Capitalism Works for Me! In doing so, he considers several key questions, including: How do everyday people view and make sense o…
Using Gramsci: A New Approach , by Michele Filippini
This review of Michele Filippini’s Using Gramsci: A New Approach examines the book not from the perspective of a trained political scientist or economist but rather from that of an applied linguist interested in exploring and developing alternative ethnographic and pedagogic approaches able to utilize the Gramscian frameworks of common-sense and good-sense beliefs, particularly as these approaches pertain to how people view the role of capitalism…
EAP Students Co‐constructing Alternative Narratives: Classroom Discursive Representations of Islam and Democracy
Little research has been done exploring how Islam has been mediated by English language teachers and learners in the classroom through the prism of dominant discourses in social circulation. Drawing on an ethnographic English for academic purposes ( EAP ) classroom case study, this article explores how particular meanings of Islam were framed and challenged in this classroom context by examining how an instructor and her two Muslim students engag…
Language, discourse, and class: What's next for sociolinguistics
Drawing from the various theoretical constructs and analyses of class in sociology, economics, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics, I discuss a number of issues regarding class and possible future research avenues for sociolinguists. These include addressing and exploring how to move beyond the static categorical groupings of class membership, including those of researchers themselves in their work on class, appraising the relevance and utilit…
The return of the ‘Yellow Peril’: The fear of getting sick from the Other
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A World without Capitalism: Alternative Discourses, Spaces, and Imaginaries
In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the ways in which identities, discourses, and topographies of both capitalist and anti-capitalist imaginaries and realities are embodied in the everyday practices of people. A World without Capitalism? is a sociolinguistic ethnography that explores the heretofore limited research in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics on the discursive and materialized representations and enactments of capitalism. Eng…
English Language Teaching and Resurgent Nationalism: What is to be Done
When politicians, media pundits, academics, and everyday people mention the word, “nationalism”, what do they mean by it? Is it akin to “patriotism” with loving and believing in one's “own” country because of its “uniqueness”? Its glorious past, and its promise of a better future? That one's country is either superior with its culture and language than any other country, or if not, it will eventually be by climbing its way to the top over others,…
Global English and Political Economy
For years in applied linguistics, the worldwide spread of a dominant standardized English language has been often associated and contextualized with the terms ‘globalization’ and ‘imperialism’ (e.g. Block 2008; Bruthiaux 2008; Canagarajah 1999; Dewey 2007; Kumaravadivelu 2006; Pennycook 2010; Phillipson 2001). In addition, ‘neoliberalism’ has also now been used in analyzing and identifying the shifting dynamics of English language institutional t…
I ain’t your f*cking Model Minority! Indexical orders of ‘Asianness’, class, and heteronormative masculinity
By inscribing and ascribing particular indexical signifiers to people while ignoring and/or dismissing actual individual performative enactments and self-identifications, neoliberal multicultural discourses, in claiming tolerance and acceptance, frame racialized people as “an essentialized and totalized unit that is perceived to have little or no internal variation” (Ladson-Billings, Gloria. 2000. Racialized discourses and ethnic epistemologies. …
Reinventing Critical Applied Linguistics in Difficult Times?
With the onset of the global pandemic in 2020, and the re‐emergence of fascism and nationalism around the world, what does being ‘critical’ mean for applied linguists in these times of crisis? In this chapter, I highlight recent research re‐contextualizing criticality in our field and raise several questions with the aim of furthering dialogues and directions in how we can make our research and teaching practices resonate more with not only langu…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (13 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (6 works)