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Critical Applied Linguistics

This overview of critical applied linguistics looks at the topic from three perspectives: first, doing applied linguistics critically: a brief overview of interrelated critical work in applied linguistics, including critical discourse analysis, critical literacy, critical pedagogy, critical multiculturalism, critical approaches to translation, and so on; second, the critical in applied linguistics: an examination of different understandings of what it means to be critical and various responses to the emergence of critical applied linguistics; and third, applied linguistics and the critical: a discussion of the linguistic, somatic and performative turns in the social sciences and their implications for critical applied linguistics, and applied linguistics more broadly, concluding with the argument that a transgressive, critical applied linguistics has become far more than a political add-on to mainstream applied linguistics.