The Lenses of Discourse: Literacy and Criticality in the Digital World

This text presents language as discourse & some of the implications of such view to education in the contemporary world. The analysis of the contemporary world made here starts from its characterization as the locus of a middle class in a process of globalization & digitalization, & focuses on a post-structuralist view of discourse as the basis for critical literacy. From such basis, then, the text proceeds to a discussion of the implications of critical literacy to the social role attributed to foreign languages in the world today, seen mainly from the perspective of a so-called "virtual transculturality." References. Adapted from the source document