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WP337 Arts-activist literacies across a lifespan: An ethnographic biography of Ítala Isis and the (in)Visible Cities Movement in Rio de Janeiro
2025
This article presents an approach to biographical writing developed through ethnographic fieldwork on social movement literacies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From that wider range, the focus is on arts-activist literacies across the lifespan of one …
Key words: arts activism, Brazil, ethnography, insecuritisation, Literacy Studies
WP151 Ethnographic research on ad-hoc interpreting in an emergency department: The challenges of data collection
2015
This paper describes the methods used and the challenges encountered during data collection for an ethnographic study on language barriers and ad-hoc interpreting in a linguistically diverse inner-city hospital emergency department (ED). Data …
Key words: ethnography
WP125 Methodological foundations in linguistic ethnography
2014
This paper provides a sketch of the assumptions, values, frameworks and techniques that currently characterise linguistic ethnography, and in keeping with the dynamic that makes it such a productive and appealing perspective, we will ground our …
Key words: ethnography, methodology
WP105 Literacies studies as linguistic ethnography.
2013
This paper makes the case for the continuing importance of literacy studies within linguistic ethnography, particularly given the nature of the kinds of societies in which we are working.? It underlines the importance of continuing to develop …
Key words: ethnography, literacies
WP90 Interpretative & representational dilemmas in a linguistic ethnographic analysis: Moving from "interesting data" to a publishable research article
2012
The article draws on linguistic ethnographic analysis of a video-recorded literacy lesson, and examines the complex movement from ?intriguing episode? to published article. It discusses (1) the key concepts and principles we drew upon in our analysis …
Key words: ethnography
WP57 Historical bodies and historical space
2010
Theoretically sophisticated ethnography is rare, and it takes an effort to discover it, because sometimes it is found in work that does not announce or present itself as ?typical? ethnography (the fieldwork-based monograph is still the ?typical? …
Key words: ethnography
WP56 The enregisterment of Putonghua in practice
2009
This paper explores Putonghua enregisterment as a supra-local linguistic standard through daily discursive practice of its speakers. Drawing on ethnographic data including observation, interview and documentation, I discuss the emergence and spread …
Key words: ethnography, language prestige
WP43 Linguistic ethnography, interactional sociolinguistics and the study of identities.
2007
This paper provides an overview of linguistic ethnography and interactional sociolinguistics, two closely related perspectives on communication, and in order to develop an account of their relevance to ?real world issues?, it discusses their …
Key words: ethnography, sociolinguistics
WP34 Ethnography as counter-hegemony: Remarks on epistemology & method
2006
Ethnography is a strange scientific phenomenon. On the one hand, it can be seen as probably the only truly influential "invention" of anthropological linguistics, having triggered important developments in social-scientific fields as diverse as …
Key words: epistemology, ethnography, methodology