English as a Lingua Franca:Applied Linguistics, Marxism and Post-Marxism: (re)positioning theory and practice in academic writing

John Robert Schmitz

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John Robert Schmitz Supplementary Document for RBLA Author: John Robert Schmitz Title of Paper submitted for evaluation: English as a Lingua Franca: Applied Linguistics, Marxism and Post-Modern Theory Affiliation: DLA, IEL, Unicamp Degrees: AB Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (1957), MA, Teachers College, Columbia University, Doctorate (Letters), PUC-SP (1975), Titular Unicamp (1998) Address: Ed. Casablanca, Rua Maracá 234 apt. 11, Vila Guarani, 04313-210, São Paulo, S.P. john.schmitz@uol.com.br I declare that there are no references whatsoever to my publications in the article submitted. I hereby state that I make no references in this paper to my own work. I also swear the article has not been submitted elsewhere and that it is own work. John Robert Schmitz Date: 11th of July 2016 Biodata: John Robert Schmitz holds an MA degree from Teachers College (1962) and received his doctorate in applied linguistics from the Catholic University of São Paulo (1975). He has lived and taught in Brazil since 1970 and has been on the staff of three universities and retired from the State University of Campinas in 2003. He has published extensively in Brazil and has contributed articles to Hispania , Studi Italiani de Linguistica Teorica ed Aplicata, Language Problems and Planning, Meta, International Journal of Humor Research, Língua, Rask, Discourse & Society, ITA (Review of Applied Linguistics),Canadian Modern Language Review and Revista Internacional de Língua Portuguesa. Brazil ##default.groups.name.author##

Mots-clés :

truth, fetish, qualitative research, Frankfurt School, globalization, post-marxism

Résumé

This paper is motived by a reading of “English as a Lingua Franca: An Immanent Critique” (O’REGAN, 2014), who claims that ELF researchers place their work at the forefront of debates with regard to what function and form English should play in the lives of its numerous speakers worldwide. O’Regan questions the use of an epistemology based on a positivist and objectivist paradigm, connected to a postmodernist and poststructuralist ‘sensibility’. To attempt a fair analysis of O’Regan’s critique of ELF, I consider it essential to examine Marxist theory in the light of the analyses of Sim’s (2000) Post-Marxism and of the work published by Laclau and Mouffe (1985). My reading leads me to claim that traditional Marxist thinking is compromised by its association with authoritarian and totalitarian stances, as opposed to Post-Marxist views of pluralism, libertarianism, and openness to the cultural climate of postmodernism. Based on the disillusions of post-Marxist thinkers, I conclude that the views of classical Marxism are not applicable to ‘English as a Lingua Franca’

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John Robert Schmitz, Supplementary Document for RBLA Author: John Robert Schmitz Title of Paper submitted for evaluation: English as a Lingua Franca: Applied Linguistics, Marxism and Post-Modern Theory Affiliation: DLA, IEL, Unicamp Degrees: AB Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (1957), MA, Teachers College, Columbia University, Doctorate (Letters), PUC-SP (1975), Titular Unicamp (1998) Address: Ed. Casablanca, Rua Maracá 234 apt. 11, Vila Guarani, 04313-210, São Paulo, S.P. john.schmitz@uol.com.br I declare that there are no references whatsoever to my publications in the article submitted. I hereby state that I make no references in this paper to my own work. I also swear the article has not been submitted elsewhere and that it is own work. John Robert Schmitz Date: 11th of July 2016 Biodata: John Robert Schmitz holds an MA degree from Teachers College (1962) and received his doctorate in applied linguistics from the Catholic University of São Paulo (1975). He has lived and taught in Brazil since 1970 and has been on the staff of three universities and retired from the State University of Campinas in 2003. He has published extensively in Brazil and has contributed articles to Hispania , Studi Italiani de Linguistica Teorica ed Aplicata, Language Problems and Planning, Meta, International Journal of Humor Research, Língua, Rask, Discourse & Society, ITA (Review of Applied Linguistics),Canadian Modern Language Review and Revista Internacional de Língua Portuguesa. Brazil

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