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WP355 Communication challenges in the practice of diaspora among Sri Lankan Tamils
2026
This paper builds on Brubaker’s (2005) conception of diaspora as practice and describes how a legacy of conflict feeds into basic communicative processes in the formation of diasporic spaces and identities within the Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) …
Key words: channels of communication, diaspora, diaspora practice, interactional sociolinguistics, Sri Lankan Tamils
WP336 Digital technology as human experience
2025
This paper introduces the Language & Communication special issue Digital technology as human experience – adapting existing approaches to theorizing and analyzing digitally mediated interaction. The special issue has the …
Key words: applied linguistics, digital communication, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography
WP331 Existential challenges and interactional sociolinguistics/linguistic ethnography
2024
Artificial intelligence is certainly changing our lives, but wherever there is an interest in the ongoing interaction of people, culture, economy and environment, where different kinds of discourse, person, organism, object, technology and habitat …
Key words: Artificial intelligence, Existential challenges, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, Posthumanism
WP330 Worlds in grains of sand: Interactional sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography
2024
In a contribution to Milak & Tankosić’s Becoming a Linguist (Routledge), this paper begins with a brief sketch of interactional sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography (IS & LE) and then describes the experience of …
Key words: career trajectories, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography
WP310 Advanced Linguistic Ethnography?
2023
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 and academic career structures, covering …
Key words: applied linguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, methodology
WP205 Interactional Sociolinguistics
2017
This paper starts with a sketch of the origins of Interactional Sociolinguistics (IS) in Gumperz and Hymes' early efforts to develop a general theory of language and society. Characterising the key features of Gumperzian IS, it emphasises the notions …
Key words: interactional sociolinguistics