2020
DOI: 10.1111/josl.12415
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Producing the Eikaiwa English language lesson: A dialectical approach to the contradictions of commodity production

Abstract: In building upon sociolinguistic work which highlights the continuities and contradictions of capitalism, this article proposes an understanding of Taylorised and flexible forms of production as a dialectical and contradictory unity, which can push and pull those within production in contradictory directions. As a means to illustrate what a dialectical approach to contradiction might offer sociolinguistics, the article discusses empirical work from corporate eikaiwa English language teaching, a form of commerc… Show more

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“…Simpson (2020, pp. 527–528) also points us to the “contradictory forces at work” that teachers need to grapple with, especially over ‘the mediation of their own interests, with those of management, institutional evaluative mechanisms, and the student in the role of consumer’.…”
Section: Language Trainers As Affective Language Workersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Simpson (2020, pp. 527–528) also points us to the “contradictory forces at work” that teachers need to grapple with, especially over ‘the mediation of their own interests, with those of management, institutional evaluative mechanisms, and the student in the role of consumer’.…”
Section: Language Trainers As Affective Language Workersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Já antecipei parte dessas críticas, mas oferecerei abaixo um resumo sistemático delas, para em seguida explicar como pretendo situar etnograficamente meu argumento. As críticas são numerosas e diversas, de modo que, para os propósitos deste artigo, me centrarei nas proposições de Holborow (2015), Simpson e O'Regan (2018), Simpson (2020) e Block (2018a e b), que dizem respeito ao próprio conceito de linguagem como mercadoria e à materialidade do processo de mercantilização.…”
Section: Linguagem Mercantilização E Capitalismounclassified
“…Com base numa análise situada de momentoschave da interação, procuro discutir a hibridização, nos termos de Latour (1994), de recursos comunicativos, corpo e crítica ao capitalismo; aponto também momentos de purificação ou objetificação situacional desses elementos. A seção final, a partir de uma síntese da evidência empírica apresentada, retoma a crítica à posição idealista de Holborow (2015), Simpson e O'Regan (2018), Simpson (2020) e Block (2017Block ( , 2018a, entre outros, destacando a ideologia semiótica que funda sua dicotomização de discurso e realidade, bem como sua rejeição à noção de mercantilização da linguagem.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified