Critical Inquiry in Language Studies

Critical Inquiry in Language Studies

http://www.leaonline.com/loi/cils

Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal (CILS) is the
peer-reviewed journal of the International Society for Language Studies.
Language studies overlaps fields of applied linguistics, language policy,
language planning, modern languages and literatures, education,
anthropology, sociology, history, political science, psychology, and
cultural studies (including related fields, such as law, media, and
information technology).

CILS focuses on critical discourse and research in language matters, broadly
conceived, that is generated from qualitative, critical pedagogical, and
emergent paradigms. In these paradigms, language is considered to be a
socially constituted cultural construct that gives shape to, and at the same
time is shaped by, the larger social, political, and historical contexts of
its use. The primary purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for
discussion of the research from such emerging paradigms and at the same time
to bridge arbitrary disciplinary territories in which it is being done.

CILS seeks manuscripts that present original research on issues of language,
power, and community within educational, political, and sociocultural
contexts with broader reference to international and/or historical
perspective. Equally welcome are manuscripts that address the development of
emergent research paradigms and methodology related to language studies.

Though CILS seeks to present a balance of research from contributing
disciplines, interdisciplinary foci are encouraged, with the goal of
fostering a dialogue among those who teach languages and literatures and
those who teach about language(s) in related fields.

A second focus of CILS is to provide, through its book and media review
section, a vehicle for communication among disciplines regarding existing
publications and research in the field of language studies.

Print ISSN: 1542-7587
Online ISSN: 1542-7595

Editors:

Terry A. Osborn
University of Connecticut

Timothy G. Reagan
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa

Email:  journal@isls-inc.org

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Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format.
 
Current Issue: Volume 2, Issue 4 (2005)

Date: 16 February 2006