{"pk":43567,"title":"Beyond Multilingual Advocacy: Subjectivity and Affect as Method","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper considers how Claire Kramsch’s work on subjectivity and language learning contributes to a critique of multilingual advocacy, in which linguistics’ efforts of social engagement tend to focus on sites of inequality characterized by structural linguistic difference ideologically attributed to racialized and minoritized communities. While much criticism has been raised against this tendency, this paper argues that Kramsch’s focus on multilingualism as subjective experience not only offers a resource for undoing dominant language ideologies of the discipline, but also provides a concrete alternative basis for the field’s social engagement, via the way it foregrounds the affective, material, and political realities of being a multilingual speaker. Drawing upon recent works in other disciplines that have been actively turning to affect as a way of rethinking hegemonic epistemologies, this paper suggests considering affect as method, which allows our affects, particularly those of discomfort, anxiety, and unease, to guide us in our engagement with injustices, inequalities, and oppressive relations that are deeply embedded within and shaped by our subjectivities.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"multilingual advocacy"},{"word":"Affect"},{"word":"Social Transformation"},{"word":"subjectivity"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xw773nb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Joseph","middle_name":"Sung-Yul","last_name":"Park","name_suffix":"","institution":"National University of Singapore","department":"English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies"}],"date_submitted":"2025-02-25T09:25:20.105000Z","date_accepted":"2025-07-12T19:07:42.487000Z","date_published":"2025-09-15T22:55:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"Final Galley 092025","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/43567/galley/39854/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"Galley v1","type":"other","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/43567/galley/38576/download/"},{"label":"Final Galley 092025","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/43567/galley/39854/download/"}]}