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WP356 Interaction & memory in empirical sociolinguistic approaches to the spectral
2026
Sociolinguistics needs to take violence and its lasting, intense and/or unpredictable effects very seriously, but is a new and specialised hauntological sociolinguistics of the spectre needed to address them? This paper argues (i) that theories and …
Key words: conflict, insecuritisation, interaction, memory studies, methodology, sociolinguistics, spectres
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
WP190 Limits to translanguaging: Insights from a conflict-affected context
2016
This paper looks at how histories of conflict and ideologies of language as a bounded entity mapped onto a homogeneous nation impact on translanguaging practices in a superdiverse classroom in conflict-affected Cyprus. Drawing on ethnographic data …
Key words: conflict, translanguaging
WP178 End-of-Project Report - Crossing languages & borders: Intercultural language education in a conflict-troubled context
2015
This is a final report to the Leverhulme Trust of a project funded from 2012 to 2015. After long-established hostility, as a reconciliatory gesture in 2003, the Republic of Cyprus introduced optional Turkish-as-a-Foreign-Language classes for …
Key words: conflict, language education