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Revolution Demythologized, Jonathan Allison
Revolution Demythologized, Jonathan Allison
English Faculty Publications
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Review Of Social Class In Applied Linguistics By David Block, Frank Bramlett
Review Of Social Class In Applied Linguistics By David Block, Frank Bramlett
English Faculty Publications
As Block writes in the prologue and the epilogue, the book is primarily about erasure; his motivation for writing the book is to highlight “the substantial and sometimes complete erasure of social class in applied linguistics research due to the ways in which applied linguists frame their discussions of issues such as identity, inequality, disadvantage and exclusion” (pp. ix–x). Overall, Block achieves his goal of illustrating the widespread absence of social class in applied linguistics; however, the book itself makes some missteps in exploring the very construct it claims as its focus.
The book is divided into five chapters. Chapter …