Integrationism in context: the integrationist tradition in the contemporary landscape of linguistic research - towards a ‘critical communication studies’?

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  • Peter Jones Universidade Federal de Santa Catarinahttp://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?metodo=apresentar&id=K4749606T9

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2022.e84045

Abstract

In this paper I wanted to give a personal view on where I believe integrationism (Harris, 1981, 1998) sits in the current field of linguistics and applied linguistics research. In doing so I hoped to try to clarify what I see as the distinctive contribution that the integrationist tradition may make in responding to the challenge that Alastair Pennycook and Sinfree Makoni (2020) have posed of a re-made linguistics which can learn from and do justice to the struggles for both social justice and equality across both the Global South and Global North as well as for harmonious and mutually beneficial relations with our world and the other beings that share it with us.

Author Biography

Peter Jones, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarinahttp://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?metodo=apresentar&id=K4749606T9

Tem graduação em Letras-Inglês/Literatura e em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, mestrado e doutorado em Teoria e Análise Lingüística pela UFSC e pós-doutorado em Políticas Linguísticas pela Universidade da Pennsylvania. Tem interesse nas seguintes áreas: políticas linguísticas e estudos de variação e/ou mudança sob uma perspectiva discursiva. Tem pesquisado os temas: dimensões política e ética das políticas linguísticas em contextos coloniais e pós-coloniais de uso da língua portuguesa; Linguística colonial; o papel dos diálogos interculturais na (re)configuração dos sujeitos. Atualmente ocupa o cargo de professor adjunto III da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, é vinculada ao programa de pós-graduação da UFSC e atua como professora colaboradora no programa de pós graduação da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar). Integra o GT da ANPOLL de Sociolinguística. Participa, como pesquisadora, do Núcleo de Estudos de Identidades e Relações Interétnicas/NUER-UFSC e do Projeto Variação Linguística na Região Sul do Brasil/Varsul-UFSC. Lidera desde 2009 o grupo de pesquisa Línguas,Identidades e Política

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2022-02-15

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