Against the multilingual turn as paradigm replacement
Reconsidering Kubota’s charge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21239643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ria Angelo (0000-0001-7971-6527, University of Bath, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-115 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2300-9969 • E-ISSN: 2300-9969 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/opli-2021-0007 |
| OpenAlex | W3158737393 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
In her 2016 paper, entitled, The Multi-Plural Turn, Post-Colonial Theory and Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Complicities and Implications for Applied Linguistics , Kubota proposes a more critical look at neoliberal aspects of the multilingual turn in applied linguistics that, in celebrating individual difference, challenge its status as a transformative discourse. In her argument from paradigm replacement, Kubota posits that because the multilingual turn, to some extent, emerges from the principle of individual accountability in a neoliberal political economy, its discourse must be complicit with the aims of a neoliberal agenda. This paper is a reply to some of the issues she raises in that critique. My argument is two-pronged. First, I take issue with the epistemic characterization of individual accountability as the only source of multilingualism within a neoliberal discourse. Second, I challenge her rejection of a democratic cosmopolitanism as a self-determining antidote to the neoliberal ideal (c.f. Calhoun 2002). This paper concludes that an alternate epistemic source of the multilingual turn unites language speakers in more moral and less economic terms, thereby destabilizing the argument from paradigm replacement
Cosmopolitanism · Democracy · Epistemology · Linguistic turn · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Plural · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformative learning · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Metrolingualism
Translingual Practice
The commodification of language
Schooling in capitalist America
The Multi/Plural Turn, Postcolonial Theory, and Neoliberal Multiculturalism
Neoliberal ideology, discursive paradox and communicative language teaching
Translingual Practices and Neoliberal Policies
Critical Applied Linguistics
Globalisation, knowledge and the myth of the magnet economy
Critical pedagogy and second language education
The Concept of Method, Interested Knowledge, and the Politics of Language Teaching
The Unexamined Relationship Between Neoliberalism and Plurilingualism
The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers
Epistemology and the Politics of Knowledge
This is Your Father's Paradigm
Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |