Routledge Critical Language Studies - Social Inequalities & Injustice

This Routledge volume explores criticality in language studies through the intellectual tradition of the Frankfurt School, featuring work by Adorno, Habermas, Horkheimer, and Marcuse. The book examines linguistic contexts across diverse settings including gender activism, web journalism, classrooms, and public spaces, offering both theoretical frameworks and methodological guidance for researchers. It provides comprehensive insights into how language both reflects and reinforces social inequalities and injustice, whilst developing a critical outlook on meaning-making in contemporary language scholarship. The volume combines historical and political perspectives to help scholars understand criticality as an essential analytical lens for interrogating power structures embedded in linguistic practices and communication systems.