Applied Linguistics Review· 2026Q1
Reimagining applied linguistics through Deleuzo–Guattarian concepts: a conceptual review
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Deleuzo–Guattarian concepts like assemblage and rhizome are reshaping applied linguistics by reconceptualizing language and learning as dynamic, relational events rather than static representations.
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Key points
- Deleuzo–Guattarian concepts are increasingly used in applied linguistics to challenge representational understandings of language and learning.
- These concepts, including assemblage, rhizome, and affect, emphasize immanence and relationality over human-centered views.
- The review maps how these concepts are mobilized across scholarship to reimagine language and learning as dynamic, event-based processes.
- A new conceptual approach, the 'haecceitic encounter', is proposed for studying language, learning, and teaching as emergent events.
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Abstract
Abstract Applied linguistics has increasingly engaged with posthuman perspectives that challenge human-centered and representational understandings of language and learning. Among the diverse strands informing this turn, Deleuze and Guattari have been particularly influential, offering concepts such as assemblage, rhizome, becoming, affect, stuttering, minor literature, and smooth/striated space thought through an ontology of immanence. As these engagements continue to unfold, this conceptual review maps how Deleuzo–Guattarian concepts function across applied linguistics scholarship and how they open spaces for reconceptualizing language and learning. Across their diverse mobilizations, these concepts unsettle bounded and representational understandings, reimagining language and learning as relational events continually varying on a plane of immanence. Building on this cartography, I conceptualize the haecceitic encounter as an approach to inquiry on which language, learning, and teaching cease to be subjects or objects and instead become events, through which other problems and new concepts may emerge.
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