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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
WP297 Interpretation in Linguistic Ethnography: Some comments for Quantitative Ethnographers
2022
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 without straitjacketing them into rigid methods that are insensitive to …
Key words: linguistic ethnography
WP197 Telling stories from the newsroom: A linguistic ethnographic account of dramatisation in the broadcast news
2016
Drawing on Linguistic Ethnography, this paper hones in on the on-going production of a news item about an airplane crash in Indonesia broadcast by the Swiss French-speaking public TV in 2007. It shows how telling a story in the news is a team …
Key words: dramatization, linguistic ethnography, narrative practices, news, storytelling
WP180 Late modern reflexivity in linguistic ethnographies of youth.
2015
This short paper begins with a sketch of the dominant approaches to reflexivity in contemporary applied linguistics and social theory. It critically examines recent contributions on the interrelation between agency, reflexivity and social structure …
Key words: linguistic ethnography
WP158 Language and identity in linguistic ethnography
2015
The study of language and identity from the perspective of linguistic ethnography (LE) has received increasing attention during the last decade. Resting upon the social and discursive turns in the social sciences, LE has ontological and …
Key words: identity, linguistic ethnography
WP155 A micro-ecology of language in multi-ethnic Frankfurt: The linguistic ethnography of a barbershop
2015
Through the linguistic ethnography of a multiethnic barbershop, this paper explores the spaces, activities and sets of language practices in which an ethnically diverse mix of Frankfurt-residents-who-grew-up-abroad and …
Key words: linguistic ethnography