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WP310 Advanced Linguistic Ethnography?
2023
Can we really talk about advanced linguistic ethnography, and if so, what does it look like? This paper offers quite a personal view of training programmes, PhDs, interdisciplinary relationships and academic career structures, covering …
Key words: applied linguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, methodology
WP309 Language policy 4.0
2023
Media in general, and, in particular new media that are the product of digital technology, have not been a key domain of study in language policy and language planning. However, such media have increasingly become central sites of everyday linguistic …
Key words: agency, language policy, technology, Web 4.0
WP308 ESOL and Linguistic Citizenship: Practical actions amid policy neglect
2023
This paper describes national policy for teaching English to adult migrants in England, and asks what ESOL teaching can do to overcome the fragmentation and hostility it finds, opening up to multilingualism instead. After a historical sketch of …
Key words: adult education, ESOL, language policy, Linguistic Citizenship
WP307 Decolonising language in the city: Multilingual repertoires, institutional practice and civic engagement in a UK urban setting
2023
In this paper I examine how multilingual spaces emerge within institutions across a number of sectors in the city. Drawing on their repertoires of linguistic resources actors (institutional agents and clients) assume agency to change practice and …
Key words: civic engagement, decolonisation, higher education, language policy, multilingualism
WP304 Emotions and globalization
2022
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how emotions are significant in the context of an increasingly globalized world, especially in relation to the phenomenon of migration. Research in many academic disciplines during the last two decades …
Key words: emotions; globalization; transnationalization; migration; language; discourse; embodiment
WP303 Circulation in the manosphere: Mobile matrices of reactionary masculinity
2022
Understanding how extremist ideas spread in stylized and enregistered forms is a matter of some urgency for feminist and critical scholarship, and this paper investigates the global spread of anti-feminist and right-wing discourses in the …
Key words: anti-feminism, anti-Semitism, enregisterment, manosphere, nofap, translocal style
WP302 Multilinguals as Others in society & academia: Challenges of belonging under a monolingual habitus
2022
Public discourse in a range of countries has been reported to be characterised by Othering practices that support dichotomies between a national and monolingual “in-group” and multilingual speakers who are constructed as secondary citizens and …
Key words: Multilingualism; language ideology; othering; linguistics
WP301 What makes for a ‘good university’: Dialogue from a southern faculty
2022
In (post-)Covid conditions of precarity and epistemic challenge, what makes for a ‘good’ degree or programme of learning? How do we create spaces that encourage the development of critical thought that builds engaged, informed citizens? How do …
WP300 Sectors and the workplace in language teaching: Differences, links and alliances?
2022
How much do language educators working in schools, Further Education (FE), not-for-profit organisations and universities really have in common? Can we really talk about the professional identity of teachers and their freedom for manoeuvre without …
Key words: language education, multilingualism, sectors
WP299 Walking interviews, visual diagramming and participatory ethnography
2022
Although generally accepted that there can be no ethnographic research without collaboration, there is a growing interest in a more explicit and deliberate collaborative ethnographic research (Lassiter 2005; Campbell & Lassiter 2015). Building on …
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WP297 Interpretation in Linguistic Ethnography: Some comments for Quantitative Ethnographers
2022
What are we doing when we interpret discourse and communication data? How do we know if our interpretations are sound? How can we increase the quality of our interpretations without straitjacketing them into rigid methods that are insensitive to …
Key words: linguistic ethnography
WP296 'New normal', new media: Covid issues, challenges & implications for a sociolinguistics of the digital
2022
This paper explores (re)configurations in new media communication practices, as they relate to the ongoing Covid-19 global pandemic. We anchor our reflections onto the notion of 'context', which, following Hanks (2006), we understand as both emergent …
WP295 Algorithms, interaction and power: A research agenda for digital discourse analysis
2022
Discourse analysts have worked on digital data for decades now, initially treating digital data as human texts, then increasingly as human, multimodal interaction mediated through digital media, also attending to digital platforms and their …
Key words: algorithms in interaction
WP294 Towards epistemic justice: Transforming relations of knowing in multilingual classrooms
2022
This study of a postcolonial site engages with epistemic justice from the perspective of language. It understands epistemic justice as relating to issues of knowledge, understanding, and participation in communicative practices. It suggests that …
Key words: epistemic justice
WP293 Sociolinguistics and (in)securitisation as another mode of governance
2022
This paper argues that (in)securitisation-"making 'enemy' and 'fear' the integrative, energetic principle of politics" (Huysmans 2014:3)-now calls for much fuller attention than it has hitherto received in sociolinguistics, and that it should figure …
Key words: insecuritisation, sociolinguistics
WP292 Localising Linguistic Citizenship
2021
As ?an attempt at a comprehensive political stance on language? (Stroud 2008:45), ?Linguistic Citizenship? (LC) deserves to be a mainstream concept in socio- and applied linguistics. But the evaluation of its potential needs to be context-sensitive, …
Key words: linguistic theory
WP291 Manoeuvres of dissent in dispossession
2021
Protest has become a hot topic in recent sociolinguistic and semiotic landscapes scholarship. Despite a growing number of studies, little research has been done on dissent as it is jointly orchestrated by individuals and objects. To fill this gap, …
Key words: language and dissent, protest