Emerging queer epistemologies in studies of ‘gay’-student discourses

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia D. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Classroom Talk ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Composition I

Education is arguably one of the most significant, urgent, and rapidly changing arenas for research on language and sexual identity, but there has been little synthesis to date of the knowledge and theories of knowledge that are emerging through this work. Here I survey a relatively small but important segment of this disparate literature: studies that investigate classroom talk about and by students who either self-identify as gay, lesbian or queer, or who are positioned as such by others. By bringing together such studies from applied linguistics as well as education and literacy/composition, I seek to consolidate and to cultivate critical explorations of sexual identity, language and learning as interlinked domains. To this end, I identify some defining features of the queer epistemologies that are emerging in the empirical, lingua-centric literature on ‘gay’-student discourses, and I suggest future directions for this sort of work.

Sexual Identity in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or Questioning Emerging Adults: The Role of Parental Rejection, and Sexuality Specific Family Support

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110500
Author(s):  
Ashley B. Taylor ◽  
Tricia K. Neppl
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Parental Rejection ◽  
Sexual Identity Development ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Participant Gender ◽  
Midwestern University

The present study provides critical contributions to the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) emerging adults by examining the role of family and sexuality specific family support, as well as the moderating effect of gender, on sexual identity development. Specifically, the role of mother and father rejection and sexuality specific family support on both affirmed identity and identity struggles of students were assessed. Using a sample of 338 LGBTQ emerging adults at a midwestern University, findings illustrate that for sexual identity development, mother and father parental rejection positively influenced identity struggles while sexuality specific family support positively influenced affirmed identity. Also, moderation by participant gender was not supported. Limitations and future directions are discussed.

scholarly journals Applied Linguists

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Kanavillil Rajagopalan
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Analytic Work ◽  
Critical Turn

This paper seeks out future directions for the field of study that has by now fully consolidated itself as an independent discipline under the name of Applied Linguistics. Special attention is drawn to the ‘loosening up’ of the very notion of language as a hermetically sealed entity, impervious to outside influences, as well as the groundbreaking critical turn it has taken in recent years, along with the impulse to intervene in the states of affairs that it unveils through painstaking studies. It is shown that this last development is by no means an optional follow-through from the analytic work customarily done. Rather, it is an inevitable sequel to the new stance adopted by researchers in the field – a development whose roots can, oddly enough, be traced back to Saussure’s thoughts at the very dawn of Linguistics, its ‘mother discipline’.  But it is also emphasized that, side by side with these exciting prospects, there also appear on the horizon some serious challenges to reckon with in the years ahead.

scholarly journals Kieli ja taide

2020 ◽  
pp. i-xx
Author(s):  
Sari Pöyhönen ◽  
Heli Paulasto
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Music Literature ◽  
Art Forms

This article introduces the AFinLA-e thematic issue focusing on creative inquiry in applied linguistics. This is a relatively new field of research, but it is expanding fast. Our aim is therefore to give a brief general introduction into this transdisciplinary field – its trajectories, approaches, methods and future directions – and to describe the contributions that the articles in this issue make into the growing body of work. The articles display a variety of research topics and approaches, illustrative of the diversity of research in the field. Art adopts a number of different roles: context, medium, process, partner, or the outcome of a research project. The articles cover various art forms, such as music, literature, visual arts, social circus, dance and photography, as well as a number of approaches to language and communication.

scholarly journals Looking Back, Looking Ahead: An Interview with Professor ZhaoHong Han

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kim ◽  
Wai Man Adrienne Lew ◽  
Haimei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Original Research Article ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Founding Editor ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Looking Back

On April 8, 2021, we had the great pleasure of speaking over Zoom with Professor ZhaoHong Han, the founding editor of SALT, which was originally called Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics. In celebration of the journal’s 20thanniversary, we discussed the motivation and vision behind establishing a web journal, future directions, essential qualities of an outstanding original research article, and advice for early career scholars and graduate students who are starting out to get their work published in journals.

Corpus-based Chinese studies

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiajin Xu
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Sociolinguistic Variation ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Corpus Studies ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
Word Lists ◽  
Frequency Character

This article reviews corpus-based Chinese studies, both applied and theoretical, from the 1920s to the present. It will be shown that, while corpus-based Chinese studies have been gaining momentum for only the last couple of decades, the roots of Chinese corpus linguistics go all the way back to the beginning of the 20th century. Today the bulk of corpus-based Chinese studies is oriented toward applied linguistics, with the compilation of frequency character/word lists and interlanguage Chinese studies being the most popular types of research. In addition to applied linguistic studies, this overview also highlights some innovative corpus studies on lexical and grammatical aspects of both classical and modern Chinese, as well as studies of sociolinguistic variation and discourse pragmatics. Overall, important groundwork in Chinese corpus linguistics is acknowledged and future directions are discussed.

Social Class in Applied Linguistics

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Block
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Constant Flow ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
To Receive

ABSTRACTSocial class is a curious construct. In the discipline where it has traditionally been most at home, sociology, there has been a constant flow of commentary on its demise and, indeed, its death over the years. In applied linguistics, the situation is somewhat different in that there has been a degree of social classdenial, but more importantly, there has been social classerasurein that the construct has tended to receive little or no attention in publications that deal with language and identity and social life. Where social class is introduced into research, it is almost always done in a very cursory, partial, and superficial way. Still, there has been some research examining the interrelationship between social class and language over the years, and in this article, I provide a review of that research, focusing primarily on the period 2000–2014. First, however, I include a discussion of what social class means in 21st-century societies and a short review of class-based research carried out from the 1960s to the 1990s, the inclusion of the latter being necessary to an understanding of research after 2000. I conclude the article with some thoughts about future directions.

TBLT through the lens of applied linguistics

2016 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bygate
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Real World ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Research To Practice ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Real World Problems

Ever since the establishment in the 1940’s of the distinguished journal Language Learning, a significant proportion of research in applied linguistics has defined itself as aiming to address practical problems of language teaching. Given the definition of applied linguistics as ‘the theoretical and empirical study of real world problems in which language has a central role’ (after Brumfit, 2001), an ambition to relate its work to practical language teaching problems is appropriate. Task-based language teaching is a subarea of applied linguistics which deliberately aims to link research to practice. With this in mind, this paper will seek to evaluate the extent to which TBLT research has to date engaged with — and helped address — the real world problems of language education. It then attempts to derive some implications for future directions of TBLT research as a part of an empirical applied linguistics.

On Future Directions in Pathology

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 274-277
Author(s):  
Benjamin F. Trump ◽  
Irene K. Berezesky ◽  
Raymond T. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Clinical Pathology ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Diagnostic Pathology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
The Many

The role of electron microscopy and associated techniques is assured in diagnostic pathology. At the present time, most of the progress has been made on tissues examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and correlated with light microscopy (LM) and by cytochemistry using both plastic and paraffin-embedded materials. As mentioned elsewhere in this symposium, this has revolutionized many fields of pathology including diagnostic, anatomic and clinical pathology. It began with the kidney; however, it has now been extended to most other organ systems and to tumor diagnosis in general. The results of the past few years tend to indicate the future directions and needs of this expanding field. Now, in addition to routine EM, pathologists have access to the many newly developed methods and instruments mentioned below which should aid considerably not only in diagnostic pathology but in investigative pathology as well.

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