Poststructuralism, cultural studies, and the composition classroom: Postmodern theory in practice

Berlin, James A.

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“…5 For those interested in looking more deeply into the history of linguistics we suggest the following as accessible treatments: Bright (1992), Crystal (1997), and Fought (1992) for brief overviews and Harris and Taylor (1997), Joseph, Love, and Taylor (2001), and Robins (1997) for more extended discussions. 6 For further reading on composition studies past and present, see: Berlin (1987Berlin ( , 1988Berlin ( , 1992, Bizzell (1992), and Connors (1997) for historical and philosophical accounts, and Lindemann (2001), North (1987), and Villanueva (1997) for treatments of contemporary issues in research and teaching. 7 For more on the nature and history of applied linguistics, see Grabe (2002), Kaplan and Widdowson (1992), and Strevens (1992) for brief accounts; Catford (1998), Christian (1999), Kaplan (1993), and Wilkins (1994) for article-length treatments; Kaplan and Grabe (1992) for a collection of views; and Davies (1999), McCarthy (2001), and Pennycook (2001) for recent book-length discussions.…”

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Family Matters: The Influence of Applied Linguistics and Composition Studies on Second Language Writing Studies—Past, Present, and Future

Silva

Leki

2004

The Modern Language Journal

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This intellectual history of the disciplinary roots of second language (L2) writing research and pedagogy in English examines the influences of its feeder disciplines, composition studies and applied linguistics, and their parent disciplines, rhetoric and linguistics. After a brief history of L2 writing's two grandparent disciplines (rhetoric and linguistics) and its two parent disciplines (composition studies and applied linguistics), the article focuses on the effect of the two parent disciplines' conflicting identities. Whereas L2 writing benefits from its invigorating position at the confluence of these two intellectual streams, it has also been pulled in different incompatible directions resulting from differences, and even similarities, between applied linguistics' and composition studies' inquiry paradigms and traditions, their intellectual identities, and the material disciplinary manifestations of their organizations, conferences, and publications. A brief history of L2 writing pedagogy and research demonstrates the push and pull of the conflicting influences of its feeder disciplines.AS SCHOLARSHIP ON SECOND LANGUAGE (L2) writing 1 reaches critical mass, we believe it is necessary to step back and reflect on the area's current situation, to look at its theories, research, and classroom practices in their historical, philosophical, and professional contexts, to figure out where the field comes from, and, on the basis of this understanding, to try to guide its trajectory.In our view, L2 writing lies at the crossroads of composition studies and applied linguistics. Therefore, looking into the histories of both these parent disciplines, we realize that to understand composition studies and applied linguistics, we need to look also at their development in the context of their parent (and our grandparent) disciplines: rhetoric and linguistics.This article is not an attempt to produce historical primers on linguistics, applied linguistics, rhetoric, and composition; excellent histories of these disciplines abound (see notes 5 and 6). Nor is it our purpose to chronicle the history of L2 writing as a profession or to provide a pedagogical history of L2 writing; insightful work in both these areas already exists. 2 Instead, we will explore the intellectual inheritance of L2 writing in order to enhance understanding of how it has been and continues to be shaped by its parent and grandparent disciplines-what they have (and have not) done and what they can (and cannot) do for L2 writing. On the basis of this exploration, we conclude with a consideration of how the discipline of L2 writing studies might develop an improved, symbiotic relationship (Matsuda, 2003) with its parent disciplines. We hope that our article will be of interest not only to those scholars who are already invested in L2 writing studies, but also to those who are new to the area and to those with general interests in

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Family Matters: The Influence of Applied Linguistics and Composition Studies on Second Language Writing Studies—Past, Present, and Future

Silva

Leki

2004

The Modern Language Journal

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“…Influenced in part by Thomas S. Kuhn's (1962) idea of paradigms and community-based knowledge in science, the social perspective (Faigley 1985) argues that there is no universal knowledge waiting to be discovered. Everything we know is based upon language (Bruffee 1986;Berlin 1992), and the language we use is governed by the discourse communities we belong to. Discourse communities determine what "knowledge" is for their specific contexts, and members of the communities know what kinds of information other members are likely to know or value (Faigley 1985).…”

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“…A potential problem with conventions is the tendency to hide issues of power and to suppress difference in favor of the status quo (Berlin 1992;Barton andBarton 1993a, 1993b;Hall and Jhally 1997). The ideological approach to social construction (Thralls and Blyler 1993) asks writers to consider the issues of power and control that underlie conventions and shape the way that writers construct their messages and identities.…”

Section: Ethos Social Construction and Conventionsmentioning

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More than decoration: An investigation into the role of visual rhetoric and ethos in corporate visual identity

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“…David Smit (1995) reports, for example, that a recent fascination with postmodernism and antifoimdationalism has driven several writing scholars to apply these concepts to writing pedagogy. These attempts have included such divergent efforts as reconfigured computer pedagogies (Barker and Kemp 1990), ideological pedagogies (Berlin 1992;Bizzell 1986), and post-process pedagogies (Ward 1994). In this chapter I examine these divergent efforts and argue that none of these attempts employs postmodern theory or antifoimdationalist theory in any meaningful way.…”

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“…Despite the fascination with postmodernism among composition scholars (Smit 1995), no clear shared definition of postmodernism exists in writing pedagogy, and further, other terms such as poststructuralism, antifoundationalism, and deconstruction are regularly used interchangebly to refer to postmodernism in writing pedagogy. For example, James Berlin (1992) combines poststructuralism, cultural studies, and postmodernism in his discussion of postmodern theory in practice. And John Schilb (1991) explains that the begirmings of postmodernism in composition may have emerged from an interest in poststructuralism that was particularly present in the field of literature (173).…”

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The third space: the role of interpretation in the production of discourse

Kastman

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Poststructuralism, cultural studies, and the composition classroom: Postmodern theory in practice

Cited by 38 publications

References 8 publications

Family Matters: The Influence of Applied Linguistics and Composition Studies on Second Language Writing Studies—Past, Present, and Future

Family Matters: The Influence of Applied Linguistics and Composition Studies on Second Language Writing Studies—Past, Present, and Future

More than decoration: An investigation into the role of visual rhetoric and ethos in corporate visual identity

The third space: the role of interpretation in the production of discourse

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