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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
WP250 Securitizing public space: A study of Kings Cross Station and Square
2019
This paper considers the role of contemporary securitization in the production of public spaces in London through a study of King's Cross Station and Square. It critically examines the security strategies in King's Cross Station and Square and the …
WP249 Language and regimes of communication: Students? struggles with norms & identities through chronotopic work
2019
Linguistic diversity is regarded as an unwelcome challenge in mainstream Danish education. In general, it is not introduced as educationally (or even socially) relevant, and there are few documented cases of successful school identities associated …
Key words: education
WP248 Advocating heteroglossia, dominating publics?
2019
In this paper, I address the fact that sociolinguists often advocate heteroglossic policies in education (and other monolingually organised domains) without extending this heteroglossia to public debate about language policy. At least there are …
Key words: language policy
WP247 Semilingualism: The life and afterlife of a sociolinguistic idea
2018
For half a century or more, semilingualism has been a controversial ? much debated and much derided ? idea. The present paper engages with some facets of this history. It traces the formation and early circulation in its context of origin: Sweden's …
Key words: linguistic theory
WP246 Goffman and the everyday interactional grounding of surveillance
2018
It is often said that surveillance has massively transformed our social lives (Lyon, Haggerty & Ball 2012:1), but this claim is weakened by the admission that its ?effects are difficult to isolate or observe, as they are embedded within many …
Key words: surveillance
WP245 Transidiomaticity and transperformances in Brazilian queer rap: Toward an abject aesthetics
2018
Queer rap has been said to be shining in the homophobic world of hip-hop lately, especially on the New York contemporary music scene. Considered by many as the new kids on the block, queer rappers have been breaking down mainstream ways of composing, …
WP244 Discourse, urban design, and professionalism in the new global city
2018
Sociolinguistic research has paid close attention to processes whereby language and communication get turned into commodities vis-?-vis the expansion of the service industries (Heller, 2010; Heller, Pujolar & Duch?ne, 2014) under the conditions …
Key words: language of work
WP243 Are chronotopes helpful?
2018
Do we really need yet another word for context?? What?s new about chronotopes?? This paper explains how the notion of chronotope provides a critical check of the validity and analytical power of the term ?context?, allowing us to observe superficial …
Key words: linguistic theory
WP242 Zombie landscapes: Apartheid traces in the discourses of young South Africans
2018
This paper explores how the spatiality of South Africa?s apartheid regime remains a structuring motif in the way young South Africans perceive and talk about place and space, despite that fact that apartheid officially ?ended? in 1994.? Illustrating …
Key words: apartheid, youth discourse
WP241 Language, neoliberalism, and the commodification of pedagogy
2018
This paper argues that, although research on neoliberalism and language commodification has helped reveal the material conditions under which language education programs are implemented worldwide, existing sociolinguistic literature has not yet …
Key words: pedagogy
WP240 Crossing of a different kind
2018
Is crossing is now an outdated concept, losing its distinctiveness in the ?trans-super-poly-metro movement??? To answer this question, this paper moves away from the scenes of vernacular multi-ethnic heteroglossia that have dominated the research on …
Key words: linguistic theory