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ABSTRACT
This special issue aims to develop a research agenda that brings language to the centre of our inquiry and critique of neoliberalism. Based on empirical case studies from across diverse contexts in Europe, North America, and East Asia, contributors to this special issue address two issues: (1) What can be said about the nature of neoliberalism when we approach it from the perspective of language as social and political process? (2) How does language learning and teaching, increasingly subject to the logic of the market, not only reflect neoliberal social transformations but also reinforce them? Together, the contributions to the special issue suggest new directions of research that will help establish language as an important key for understanding the shifting political economy of our time.
Acknowledgements
The papers in this special issue were first presented at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics in Dallas, as part of the panel ‘Applied Linguistics and Political Economy: Ideologies of Language and Identity under Neoliberalism’. We thank Monica Heller for her insightful commentary at the panel, and Marnie Holborow, whose contribution to the panel could not be included in this special issue, for continuing conversation and encouragement. We also thank Bonnie Urciuoli for detailed feedback and suggestions.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.