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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Disinventing and (Re)Constituting Languages
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Makoni, Sinfree; Pennycook, Alastair – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2005
In this paper we argue that although the problematic nature of language construction has been acknowledged by a number of skeptical authors, including the recent claim in this journal (Reagan, 2004) that there is no such thing as English or any other language, this critical approach to language still needs to develop a broader understanding of the…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Social Environment, Language Role, Sociolinguistics
Performativity and Language Studies
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Pennycook, Alastair – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2004
Drawing analogies with the crisis in understandings of culture that led to the development of cultural studies, I suggest in this article that a similar crisis in the understanding of language may give an important impetus to the development of language studies. Arguing for the need to rethink the notion of language as commonly formulated in…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Role, Linguistic Performance, Language Usage