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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
WP279 Constructing spaces of otherwise: Performing a politics through Linguistic Citizenship
2021
This paper aims to make visible the alternative social projects hidden beneath everyday Crimean Tatar landscapes. Drawing on audio recordings and field data from narrated walking tours led by young citizens, it illuminates how these spaces of …
Key words: language and politics
WP277 "Us for ourselves": Enregistering and de-escalating Coronavirus under nervous conditions
2020
In this paper, we explore how attention to language and communication has been one of the strategies to combat the pandemic and foster health justice in the deprived areas of the city. To investigate such aspect, we draw on the conceptions of …
Key words: Covid-19
WP276 Participatory pedagogy, sociolinguistics and the total linguistic fact
2020
This short paper takes a sociolinguistic look at participatory pedagogy and argues that participatory pedagogy offers a fuller and more creative exploration of language than many other types of language teaching.? The central sociolinguistic idea is …
Key words: pedagogy, sociolinguistics
WP275 Education, England & users of languages other than English
2020
Over c.50 years, language education has been a significant site of ideological struggle over England's position in the world, whether in processes of decolonisation or globalisation, and the last two decades have seen intensifications in the …
Key words: education
WP274 Normativity, language and Covid-19
2020
The UK?s recent experience of the coronavirus pandemic involves the fracturing of many established social and sociolinguistic norms, alongside erratic and only partly successful attempts to impose new norms. The paper offers a conceptual overview of …
Key words: Covid-19, normativity
WP273 The PanMeMic Manifesto: Making meaning in the Covid-19 pandemic and the future of social interaction
2020
This manifesto stems from a transmedia initiative for collective research designed to shape ? from the bottom-up ? a socially responsive and responsible culture of inquiry, in observing, recording, sharing and reflecting on the changes to …
Key words: communication, Covid-19
WP272 English and development: Voices from two rural Bangladeshi madrasas
2020
Because of its global status, donors and states both promote English for the economic development of countries in the global South such as Bangladesh. National and western discourses propose that people in madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) …
Key words: English for development, language policy
WP271 Teaching students to research Covid communication
2020
The Coronavirus pandemic has affected a great deal of everyday communicative practice, and some of the effects are potentially long-lasting.? There is lots of conversation about the pros and cons of these changes, but is this metacommentary …