Postdigital Possibilities in Applied Linguistics

• Published in: Postdigital science and education Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 743 - 755
• Main Author: Bhatt, Ibrar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01-09-2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Applied Linguistics; Calligraphy; Commentaries; Education; Educational Philosophy; Educational Technology; Language; Linguistics; Literacy; Semiotics; Sleep; Sociolinguistics; Technology and Digital Education; Verbal communication; Sociolinguistics; Applied linguistics; Language; Multimodality; Meaning-making; Postdigital; Literacy studies
• ISSN: 2524-485X; 2524-4868
• DOI: 10.1007/s42438-023-00427-3

[...]it is a challenge because digitalisation is still progressing at dizzying speed. Applied Linguistics and Digitalisation In an attempt to navigate the complexity of digitalisation, applied linguistics and its various subfields—including social semiotics, literacy studies, and sociolinguistics—have occupied themselves since the 1990s in somewhat of a race to understand language and digitality. (2023: 72), the postdigital is a broad concept that encapsulates ‘a societal condition, an approach to research and critical enquiry, or a theoretical perspective, sensibility, or philosophical position’. [...]that it needs to be ‘broadly defined’ is arguably the most significant aspect in a postdigital framing that offers new possibilities for inquiry and analysis. Other advancements in theory and methodology have emerged through the integration of posthumanist concepts, as they apply to both the act of reading (Hayles 2012) and the broader domain of applied linguistics (such as Pennycook 2018), a perspective that is also mirrored in literacy research (for example, Gourlay et al. 2021). A mere few minutes of Jing’s rather mundane morning highlights the importance of understanding literacy research as a context-rich field of inquiry that is embedded in everyday life goals, and not the preserve of institutions.