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WP318 Working papers for a more open academy

Rampton, Bock, Borba, Charalambous, Cooke & Pérez-Milans

2023

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Key words: academic publishing, applied linguistics, decolonisation, higher education, Open access

Abstract

What contribution can working papers (WPs) make to a more open academy, and where do they stand in current debates about Open Science? They used to provide speedier publication…

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WP316 Sociolinguistics meets Memory Studies: A conversation

Rampton & Van de Putte

2023

Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized

Key words: Memory Studies; Interactional Sociolinguistics; interdisciplinarity; data sessions; inter-scalar analysis; abduction

Abstract

What do Sociolinguistics and Memory Studies have in common, and why should they be interested in each other? What are the likely obstacles to their interaction? How could they…

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WP314. Citizen (socio)linguistics: What we can learn from engaging young people as language researchers

Svendsen & Goodchild

2023

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Key words: Citizen sociolinguistics; research methdology

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This paper discusses how citizen science (CS) – the “participation of non-professional contributors in the production of scientific knowledge” (Kasperowski et al., 2021:14) – is conceptualised and applied in…

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WP312 Por um paradigma transperiférico: uma agenda para pesquisas socialmente engajadas

Windle, Souza, Silva, Zaidan, Maia, Muniz & Lorenso

2022

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Key words: antiracism, antirracismo, gambiarra, letramentos de reexistência, literacies of reexistance, mandinga, transperiferias, transperipheries

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Este texto propõe uma agenda de pesquisa sobre a produção de espaços de diálogo e solidariedade entre territórios periféricos. O termo ‘transperiferias’ traduz esta proposta de pesquisa e engajamento,…

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WP310 Advanced Linguistic Ethnography?

Rampton

2023

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Key words: applied linguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, methodology

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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…

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WP309 Language policy 4.0

Kelly-Holmes

2023

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Key words: agency, language policy, technology, Web 4.0

Abstract

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….

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WP306 When language policy is not enough

Smagulova

2022

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Key words: Kazakhstan, language policy, language revitalization, social inequality

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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…

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WP305 Ideologies of language and authenticity in the construction of educational identities

Larsen

2022

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Key words: academic register, authenticity, educational identities, Language ideologies, social mobility

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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,…

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WP304 Emotions and globalization

Zembylas & Charalambous

2022

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Key words: emotions; globalization; transnationalization; migration; language; discourse; embodiment

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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…

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WP303 Circulation in the manosphere: Mobile matrices of reactionary masculinity

Burnett

2022

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Key words: anti-feminism, anti-Semitism, enregisterment, manosphere, nofap, translocal style

Abstract

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…

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WP302 Multilinguals as Others in society & academia: Challenges of belonging under a monolingual habitus

Wiese, Alexiadou, Scarvaglieri & Schroeder

2022

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Key words: Multilingualism; language ideology; othering; linguistics

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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…

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WP301 What makes for a ‘good university’: Dialogue from a southern faculty

Bock, Mnyaka, Oyowe & Rink

2022

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Key words: Higher Education; Global South; Decoloniality; Knowledge; Dialogue; Translation; University of the Western Cape

Abstract

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…

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WP299 Walking interviews, visual diagramming and participatory ethnography

Winstanley

2022

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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…

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WP298 Pressing times, losing voice: Critique and transformative spaces in higher education

Benswait & Pérez-Milans

2022

Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized

Key words: critique, higher education, pedagogy for precarity, social transformation, voice

Abstract

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…

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WP297 Interpretation in Linguistic Ethnography: Some comments for Quantitative Ethnographers

Lefstein

2022

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Key words: linguistic ethnography

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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…

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WP295 Algorithms, interaction and power: A research agenda for digital discourse analysis

Maly

2022

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Key words: algorithms in interaction

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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…

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WP294 Towards epistemic justice: Transforming relations of knowing in multilingual classrooms

Kerfoot & Bello-Nonjengele

2022

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Key words: epistemic justice

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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…

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WP293 Sociolinguistics and (in)securitisation as another mode of governance

Rampton, Silva & Charalambous

2022

Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized

Key words: insecuritisation, sociolinguistics

Abstract

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…

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WP291 Manoeuvres of dissent in dispossession

Volvach

2021

Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized

Key words: language and dissent, protest

Abstract

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…

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WP290 Sociolinguistics: 50+ years in under 10 minutes

Rampton

2021

Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized

Key words: sociolinguistics

Abstract

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…

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