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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
WP290 Sociolinguistics: 50+ years in under 10 minutes
2021
This short talk sketches some major shifts - past, recent and emergent - in sociolinguistics, focusing on its engagement with the state, the economy and security, concluding with some comments on its continuing relevance.
Key words: sociolinguistics
WP289 Collective memory and the interaction order.
2021
This paper shows that aggregated forms of memory, be they cultural or collective, can be reconceptualised as less stable than they have been hitherto assumed to be.? The ?frames? (Irwin-Zarecka, 1994) or ?schemata? (Erll, 2011, 2014) that people …
Key words: language and memory
WP288 Post-digital communication: Chronotopic worlds in Trump's discourse on migration
2021
In this article we analyze Trump's discourse on migration based on a study of 915 tweets collected from Trump's Twitter account (@realDonaldTrump) covering a period between 01/25/2015 and 09/26/2019. We align with recent theorizations about political …
Key words: discourse, language and politics, migration, Trump
WP287 Communicative situations as a basis for linguistic systems: Integrating linguistic multi-competence with grammatical structure
2021
This paper brings together two research strands that rarely interact and might even seem in-commensurable, namely sociolinguistic approaches to linguistic fluidity and multi-competence on the one hand, and structural approaches to linguistic …
Key words: methodology
WP286 "We explain": Interaction and becoming a family in migration
2021
This paper uses the lens of language brokering to explore parent-child interaction as a migrant family re-grounds itself in the new linguistic and social context. Whereas brokering is often seen as children's translating, this ethnographic study …
Key words: interaction, migration
WP285 The lived complexities of language teaching in Belgian superdiversity
2021
This case study digs into the practices and beliefs about multilingualism of two Belgian teachers of French as a foreign language (Fran?ais Langue ?trang?re, FLE), and it approaches this from three angles. First, the classroom is studied as a pool of …
Key words: language teaching
WP284 Brokering Britain, educating citizens: Critical ESOL issues and principles
2021
This paper is about the relationship between citizenship and ESOL for adult migrant students. When citizenship was inserted into the ESOL curriculum following the Nationality, Asylum & Immigration Act 2002, some teachers welcomed it, others were …
Key words: ESOL
WP283 Language education and 'conflicted heritage': Implications for teaching and learning
2021
This article revisits discussions of the relationship between language and heritage, bringing into the picture processes and experiences of (in)security and conflict. It draws largely on critical heritage studies literature, as well as on literature …
Key words: education
WP281 Collaboration between universities and third sector organisations in language education
2021
In linguistics and language education (as elsewhere), involvement with third sector organisations (TSOs) can enhance teaching, research and the practical value of university work. But for both parties, it often takes special extra initiative to …
Key words: education
WP280 Jan Blommaert and the use of sociolinguistics: Critical, political, personal
2021
Jan Blommaert was an extraordinary person and a brilliant academic ? warm, hospitable, humorous and hugely energising. In addition, he was profoundly committed to a programme of sociolinguistics that he often traced to Dell Hymes.? A number of this …
Key words: sociolinguistics