Features essays grounded in theoretical rigor that offer critical insights into contemporary educational practice Provides educators with fresh new perspectives on language in education Based on the latest research data.

Notes on Contributors vii Foreword ix Introduction x David R. Cole and Linda J. Graham 1 The Actions of Affect in Deleuze: Others using language and the language that we make ... David R. Cole 1 2 Manufacturing Consent: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of New Labour's educational governance Jane Mulderrig 13 3 'Relative Ignorance': Lingua and linguaggio in Gramsci's concept of a formative aesthetic as a concern for power John Baldacchino 29 4 Beyond Discourse? Using Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis to explore affective assemblages, heterosexually striated space and lines of flight online and at school Jessica Ringrose 48 5 Will They Ever Speak with Authority? Race, post-coloniality and the symbolic violence of language Awad Ibrahim 68 6 Romantic Agrarianism and Movement Education in the United States: Examining the discursive politics of learning disability science Scot Danforth 85 7 Lost in Translation: The power of language Sandy Farquhar & Peter Fitzsimons 101 8 The Product of Text and 'Other' Statements: Discourse analysis and the critical use of Foucault Linda J. Graham 112 9 After the Glow: Race ambivalence and other educational prognoses Zeus Leonardo 124 Index 148