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  • 20 - Expanding Academic Discourses: Diverse Englishes, Modalities and Spatial Repertoires

  • from Part IV - (Trans)Locations and Intersections
  • Edited by Anna De Fina, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, King's College London
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies
    Published online:
    28 September 2020
    Print publication:
    15 October 2020, pp 437-456

  • Summary

    In this chapter we will discuss how scholarly understandings of academic discourse have shifted over the past thirty years in response to increasing globalization and changes in theorizations of language. We will look at how the definition of and boundaries around academic discourse have widened, shifting from a singular academic discourse to plural discourses, and from a focus on language to a focus on practices, in the process of accommodating more diverse Englishes. In particular, we will consider how the study of academic discourse has exposed the increasingly blurry boundaries not only between languages but also between modes, and how discourse includes not only text but also other resources for making meaning, such as images, sound, gesture and material artifacts. We will consider how English’s role as the academic lingua franca has influenced these shifting definitions and concepts. Finally, we will consider the implications of this diversification for pedagogy and for frameworks for future discourse studies.