The Pretender

A Challenge to Academic Writing

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ID2408466
AuthorsWilliam Sughrua, William M Sughrua (0000-0001-6567-7483, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume11
Issue5
Pages483-497
Publication date2011-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708611423211
OpenAlexW2008328397
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

Following 'reflexive ethnography' and using a 'layered narrative' of autobiography, academic argument, exposition, and fictionalization set within the 'story' of the author as 'I' and a group of childhood friends on a summer night, this text challenges the apparent hegemony of mainstream academic writing of applied linguistics and poses alternative forms of writing. This theme is 'performed' rather than 'explained.' Consequently, the text engages in what Denzin and Lincoln describe as the sixth moment of qualitative research, which calls for performative narratives blurring or eliminating the divisions between data and analysis through means of 'creative writing' (e.g., scene, characterization). The following text, therefore, expounds on neither its theme, reflexive ethnographic approach, nor methodological positioning (above); rather, the text 'dramatizes' its theme, approach, and methodology, with this present abstract signposting such intentions.1

Argument (complex analysis · Art · Biography · Epistemology · Ethnography · Exposition (narrative · Hegemony · Linguistics · Literature · Mainstream · Narrative · Performative utterance · Political science · Reflexivity · Salient · Sociology · Theme (computing · Anthropology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Translation Studies and Practices · History · Law · Philosophy

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