Languages for Research Publication Purposes

Critical Plurilingualism as Critical Applied Linguistics

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ID23707649
AuthorsJames N Corcoran (0000-0001-7312-3720), Karen Englander (0000-0003-1533-5666)
Year2025
Pages1-8
Publication date2025-12-02
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20083
OpenAlexW4416917873
ISBN9781405198431
LanguageEN
References cited21

In this chapter, we look to situate, explain, and reflect upon a relatively novel approach to language for specific purposes: critical plurilingualism (CP). At the outset, we situate this work within the emerging field of English for research publication purposes, a subdiscipline of applied linguistics. We then proceed to provide the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of such an approach, highlighting how CP draws upon both emancipatory and post‐structuralist epistemologies of language, knowledge, identity, and power. Next, we examine the relationship between CP and critical applied linguistics (CALx), pointing to how they converge as well as potential tensions between them. We then outline CP's main pedagogical pillars, sketching a roadmap for how this pluri‐oriented approach may be taken up in context‐specific and lingua‐culturally responsive ways. Next, we put forth our CP research orientation named Language for Research Publication Purposes (LRPP). Finally, we conclude this chapter with suggestions for not only ethical applied linguistics practice that unabashedly challenges asymmetrical relations of power but also critical reflexivity and humility with respect to the limitations of the transformative capacity of any LRPP approach.

Applied linguistics · Critical discourse analysis · English language · Field (mathematics) · Humility · Quantitative linguistics · Reflexivity · Transformative learning

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