The Papers
Sort by
Showing 41–60 of 304 results
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
WP260 What do we mean by multilingual? Linguistic repertoires
2019
Instead of seeing multilingualism as a plurality of ?named languages?, this sociolinguistics briefing note argues that we should approach it as a repertoire of styles and linguistic resources, tuned to particular communicative settings and spheres of …
Key words: multilingualism
WP259 Decolonising linguistics: A southern African textbook project
2019
This paper uses a decolonial lens to explore the development of a southern African Linguistics textbook. Working with Santos's sociology of emergences, it argues that the project created a participatory space which enabled emerging academics to …
Key words: decolonisation, textbooks
WP258 Trump, existential threats and the banality of evil - Or why sociolinguists should (re)read Hannah Arendt
2019
This paper offers a theoretical and empirical contribution to current sociolinguistic discussions about ?existential threats? and their discursive construction in everyday life. Theoretically, the article argues for the importance of (re-)purposing …
Key words: linguistic theory
WP257 Interactional sociolinguistics, crossing and North/South research relations
2019
Taking interactional sociolinguistics and my own research on crossing as focal cases, this paper responds to Masters & Makoni who ask ?what happens to epistemologies that originate in the Global North when they are used in the Global South to …
Key words: methodology
WP256 Call for a Multilingual Cities Movement
2019
We are academics and practitioners committed to multilingualism. Shared language is vital to social life, but linguistic diversity also plays a central role, and both the individual and society are enriched by language skills. We call on colleagues …
Key words: multilingualism
WP255 Multilingual consultations in urgent medical care
2019
More than half of the world?s displaced population has moved to urban or peri-urban areas, and in Brussels, the superdiverse Belgian and European capital, the emergency care sector provides an important setting for analyzing the multilingual …
Key words: language and healthcare
WP254 On the theoretical and empirical bases of translanguaging
2019
Studies in the 1960s-70s (and continuing later) produced a systematic and sustained understanding of codeswitching but this now seems to be unravelling under the weight of the new term, Translanguaging. It is therefore imperative that we closely …
Key words: language theory, translanguaging
WP253 'Homeland' and 'host-land' identifications in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora
2019
Emphasising the need to go beyond purely spatial conceptualisations, this paper investigates the ways in which patterns of mobility among Sri Lankan Tamils (SLTs) interact with diasporic identifications with the 'homeland' and 'host-land'. SLT …
Key words: conflict, language and identity
WP252 Enregistering the nation: Bolsonaro's populist branding of Brazil
2019
This paper is concerned with Jair Bolsonaro's strategy of branding some enregistered tokens of recent polarizations, clashes and alignments that have indexed emerging forms of right-wing political membership in Brazil. In a short period of time, …
Key words: language of power
WP251 Linguistics in drama processes
2019
Doing drama is a complex interactive process. Drama processes, such as rehearsals, rely heavily on the spoken communication between the participants (such as actors, directors, performance artists), no matter how much gesture and movement is …
Key words: drama