Can we really talk about advanced linguistic ethnography, and if so, what does it look like? This paper offers quite a personal view of training programmes, PhDs, interdisciplinary relationships…
Media in general, and, in particular new media that are the product of digital technology, have not been a key domain of study in language policy and language planning….
By focusing predominantly on discourse production and language management, language policy research de-emphasizes the material sources of inequality. The paper argues that language management, often restricted by ritualistic and…
In this paper, I investigate language ideologies of academic language in an upper secondary classroom, focusing on different senses of authenticity as a legitimate user of the academic register,…
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how emotions are significant in the context of an increasingly globalized world, especially in relation to the phenomenon of migration. Research…
Understanding how extremist ideas spread in stylized and enregistered forms is a matter of some urgency for feminist and critical scholarship, and this paper investigates the global spread of…
Public discourse in a range of countries has been reported to be characterised by Othering practices that support dichotomies between a national and monolingual “in-group” and multilingual speakers who…
In (post-)Covid conditions of precarity and epistemic challenge, what makes for a ‘good’ degree or programme of learning? How do we create spaces that encourage the development of critical…
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…
In this article we examine our own doctoral supervisory dialogue as it has been institutionally interrupted due to Ahmad’s application for asylum in the UK. As we find ourselves…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…
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….
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…
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…