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WP162 Post-panoptic standard language?
2015
This paper follows Coupland (2010), who raises a number of doubts about the continuing power of standard English and its historic correlation with gradations of social class and linguistic insecurity, pointing instead to globalisation, to changes in …
Key words: class, globalisation, sociolinguistics
WP126 Interactional straining and the neoliberal self: Learning English in China's biggest English corner
2014
This paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of the ?mechanism by which language, language teaching and neoliberalism intersect? (Block, Gray and Holborow 2012: 7). Through promoting the opportunity to practice English with English-speaking …
Key words: globalisation, language learning
WP101 Inauthentic authenticity: Semiotic design & globalization in the margins of China
2013
This paper investigates authenticity as semiotic processes in the context of China and its deepening globalization processes by drawing on ethnographic observations of Enshi, a remote ethnic minority area perceived and experienced as a geopolitical …
Key words: globalisation, semiotics
WP48 Indexicalities of language contact in an era of globalization: Engaging John Gumperz? legacy
2007
In this paper, I discuss Gumperz?s statements regarding indexicality in different phases of his work: The ?Introduction? to Directions (1972); a framing essay in Rethinking linguistic relativity (1996); and a recent series of interviews and essays in …
Key words: globalisation, language contact
WP46 Goffman & globalisation: Participation frames and the spatial & temporal scaling of migration-connected multilingualism
2007
In this paper we argue that migration-based multilingual language contact, and features of multilingual engagement more generally, require concepts such as scale and scaling in order to capture the dialectic interplay between more durable features of …
Key words: globalisation
WP36 Peripheral normativity: Literacy & the production of locality in a South African township school
2006
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of classroom practices in a township school in the Wesbank settlement near Cape Town, South Africa. Focusing on the ways in which a multilingual and highly diverse student population confronts English …
Key words: globalisation, literacy, locality, marginalisation, normativity, repertoires, South Africa, world Englishes
WP17 Globalisation, Diaspora and Language Education in England
2001
This paper seeks to: …
Key words: globalisation, language education