Response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s Global English: from “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”

In this response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s paper, ‘Global English: From “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”’, I begin by aligning myself with the general thrust of Hultgren’s argument, namely that if Applied Linguists really want to help combat social injustice in the world, they will have to aba...

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Autor: Block, David
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Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
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Marxist political economy
Materialism
Neoliberalism
Class
Language labour
Factory conditions
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spelling Response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s Global English: from “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”Block, DavidEnglishMarxist political economyMaterialismNeoliberalismClassLanguage labourFactory conditionsIn this response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s paper, ‘Global English: From “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”’, I begin by aligning myself with the general thrust of Hultgren’s argument, namely that if Applied Linguists really want to help combat social injustice in the world, they will have to abandon the notion that language must be at the centre of all social analysis, realising that this focus is never going to be enough to ensure the achievement of their goal. In addition, they will need to engage with Marxist political economy in greater depth than they perhaps have done in the past. I then devote some space to clarifications of key terminology such as political economy, materialism and class, before moving back to the key idea I mean to convey, namely that a focus on language is not going to make much of a contribution to making world a better place when the real problem is the ongoing march of capitalism and the increasing inequality and the damage to the environment that it engenders.Göteborg University202420242020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/60321http://dx.doi.org/10.35360/njes.576reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésNordic Journal of English Studies. 2020 Oct 7;19(3)This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/603212026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s Global English: from “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”
spellingShingle Response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s Global English: from “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”
Block, David
English
Marxist political economy
Materialism
Neoliberalism
Class
Language labour
Factory conditions
title_short Response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s Global English: from “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”
title_full Response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s Global English: from “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”
title_fullStr Response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s Global English: from “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”
title_full_unstemmed Response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s Global English: from “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”
title_sort Response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s Global English: from “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Block, David
author Block, David
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv English
Marxist political economy
Materialism
Neoliberalism
Class
Language labour
Factory conditions
topic English
Marxist political economy
Materialism
Neoliberalism
Class
Language labour
Factory conditions
description In this response to Anna Kristina Hultgren’s paper, ‘Global English: From “Tyrannosaurus Rex” to “Red Herring”’, I begin by aligning myself with the general thrust of Hultgren’s argument, namely that if Applied Linguists really want to help combat social injustice in the world, they will have to abandon the notion that language must be at the centre of all social analysis, realising that this focus is never going to be enough to ensure the achievement of their goal. In addition, they will need to engage with Marxist political economy in greater depth than they perhaps have done in the past. I then devote some space to clarifications of key terminology such as political economy, materialism and class, before moving back to the key idea I mean to convey, namely that a focus on language is not going to make much of a contribution to making world a better place when the real problem is the ongoing march of capitalism and the increasing inequality and the damage to the environment that it engenders.
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