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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 …
WP270 National languages matter in academic career trajectories
2020
In this paper we examine the value held by national languages, here Swedish, in the scholarly career trajectories in non-Anglophone countries. To this end, we analyze the language policies of Swedish higher education institutions and the narrated …
Key words: academic language
WP269 Navigating airport security as a Person of Colour
2020
This paper explores the experience of navigating Amsterdam Schiphol airport as a Dutch Person of Colour. It asks how, and in what ways, language-use can (re)affirm the body of Colour as one that is seen as ?out of place? in a securitised environment. …
Key words: language and race
WP268 Neoliberal governance vs expert authority in Danish legal interpreting: Issues of social justice
2020
Access to interpreters is essential for a well-functioning legal system and for the rule of law. At the same time, contrary to other important institutional participants such as judges and prosecutors, interpreters are self-employed freelancers. In …
Key words: language and law, language and power
WP267 The Urban Myth: A critical interrogation of the sociolinguistic imagining of cities as spaces of diversity
2020
In this paper, I critically question the focus on ?the city? that has characterized much of recent sociolinguistic research. Besides uncertainty on how to define a city, the assumption that demographic density and territorial closeness of users of …
Key words: linguistic theory
WP266 Faces in Snapchat: Selfies and social media aesthetics
2020
In this paper, we investigate how a face may take on a variety of forms, focusing on the ways that new media creates new venues for the molding of faces. We suggest that faces should be viewed in the plural to account for the many different facial …
Key words: electronic communication
WP265 Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingualism, Linguistic Citizenship & Epistemic Justice
2020
This paper explores in what ways language ? and multilingualism in particular ? can be rethought in order to further epistemic justice. In order to situate the question of language in a broader decolonial project, it starts by critically reviewing …
Key words: education, multilingualism
WP264 Dialogue: Sociolinguistics and everyday (in)securitisation
2019
This dialogue starts from the perception that existential threats to national security has become an increasingly pervasive concern in daily life, spreading fear and suspicion through civil society. Communicative practices play a central role in …
Key words: linguistic theory, methodology
WP263 How museums de-marginalise migration
2019
Newly set-up social heritage museums have attempted to counter the anonymous and stereotyped presentations of migrants in the public sphere. Drawing on the tension between media and museum representations of human mobility, this paper offers a …
WP262 Negotiating access with public authorities in research on asylum
2019
This paper tells the story of obstacles and challenges to fieldwork in a research project exploring migrants' narratives in the asylum process in Sweden, where, rather than facilitating data collection, the Swedish Migration Authority appeared to …
Key words: fieldwork
WP261 How we feel and think about language: Language ideologies and the 'total linguistic fact'
2019
To analyse people?s thoughts, beliefs and feelings language and languages, sociolinguists have developed the concept of ?language ideology?. The goal is to understand …
Key words: language ideology