Chapter 7 Hiding in plain sight: Methodological ideologies in discourse research in applied linguistics
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Elizabeth R. Miller
Abstract
This chapter discusses a methodological ideology that often is (re)constructed in and informs many discourse-focused research practices. Its primary focus is on the often-unnoticed contradictions between discourse researchers’ interpretive, post-foundational, and non-essentialist theoretical frameworks and their materializing and essentializing methodological practices that are (seemingly) necessary for conducting data collection and discourse analysis. I demonstrate this contradiction by re-examining many familiar methodological and analytical practices that I have adopted in my own research as an applied linguist. The chapter then offers a brief exploration of recent contributions to discursive research by a still-small but growing body of scholars whose work aligns with new materialist perspectives and whose efforts seem to achieve ideological alignment across theory and methods. In highlighting this alignment, I do not suggest that new materialist approaches should be taken up in all discourse research, however, as they introduce many new complexities and research dilemmas. I close the chapter by acknowledging that many post-foundational discourse scholars (including myself) may well choose to persist with familiar and standardized data-generating practices but must recognize them as often based in positivist practices and human-centric perspectives.
Abstract
This chapter discusses a methodological ideology that often is (re)constructed in and informs many discourse-focused research practices. Its primary focus is on the often-unnoticed contradictions between discourse researchers’ interpretive, post-foundational, and non-essentialist theoretical frameworks and their materializing and essentializing methodological practices that are (seemingly) necessary for conducting data collection and discourse analysis. I demonstrate this contradiction by re-examining many familiar methodological and analytical practices that I have adopted in my own research as an applied linguist. The chapter then offers a brief exploration of recent contributions to discursive research by a still-small but growing body of scholars whose work aligns with new materialist perspectives and whose efforts seem to achieve ideological alignment across theory and methods. In highlighting this alignment, I do not suggest that new materialist approaches should be taken up in all discourse research, however, as they introduce many new complexities and research dilemmas. I close the chapter by acknowledging that many post-foundational discourse scholars (including myself) may well choose to persist with familiar and standardized data-generating practices but must recognize them as often based in positivist practices and human-centric perspectives.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Chapter 1 Introduction 1
- Chapter 2 Discourse and ideology in French thought until Foucault and Pêcheux 21
- Chapter 3 Teaching French in Acadia: From a discourse of linguistic diversity to a standard ideology 45
- Chapter 4 Ideology and emancipation through the prism of performativity: Immolation and mottos of struggle as moments of popular counter-discourse 67
- Chapter 5 Language trouble.s 87
- Chapter 6 The ideological grounding of the new normal: Anti-discourse meets utopia 103
- Chapter 7 Hiding in plain sight: Methodological ideologies in discourse research in applied linguistics 117
- Chapter 8 Ideology in cognition and discourse 137
- Chapter 9 Licensing through English 157
- Chapter 10 Language ideologies and the translation of scholarly texts 179
- Chapter 11 Negotiating ideologies and the moral order in child protection social work 201
- Chapter 12 Challenging ideologies and fostering intercultural competence: The discourses of healthcare staff about linguistic and cultural barriers, interpreters, and mediators 223
- Chapter 13 Taking a corpus-based approach to investigating discourse and ideology in the language sciences 247
- Chapter 14 Afterword 273
- Index 285
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Chapter 1 Introduction 1
- Chapter 2 Discourse and ideology in French thought until Foucault and Pêcheux 21
- Chapter 3 Teaching French in Acadia: From a discourse of linguistic diversity to a standard ideology 45
- Chapter 4 Ideology and emancipation through the prism of performativity: Immolation and mottos of struggle as moments of popular counter-discourse 67
- Chapter 5 Language trouble.s 87
- Chapter 6 The ideological grounding of the new normal: Anti-discourse meets utopia 103
- Chapter 7 Hiding in plain sight: Methodological ideologies in discourse research in applied linguistics 117
- Chapter 8 Ideology in cognition and discourse 137
- Chapter 9 Licensing through English 157
- Chapter 10 Language ideologies and the translation of scholarly texts 179
- Chapter 11 Negotiating ideologies and the moral order in child protection social work 201
- Chapter 12 Challenging ideologies and fostering intercultural competence: The discourses of healthcare staff about linguistic and cultural barriers, interpreters, and mediators 223
- Chapter 13 Taking a corpus-based approach to investigating discourse and ideology in the language sciences 247
- Chapter 14 Afterword 273
- Index 285
