Social Class in Applied Linguistics

Publications on language and identity generally focus on global language and culture flows, and are seldom informed by political economy. Additionally, social class, as an identity inscription, is ignored. This book argues that the increasing socioeconomic inequality, which has come with the consolidation of neoliberal policies and practices worldwide, requires changes in how we think about identity.

David Block is Research Professor in Sociolinguistics for the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and works in the Department d'Anglès i Lingüística at the Universitat de Lleida, Spain. He is co-author of Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics (Routledge, 2012).

Prologue.1. Setting the Stage 2. What is Social Class? 3. Social Class in Sociolinguistics 4. Social Class in Bilingualism Research 5. Social Class in Second Language Acquisition and Learning. Epilogue