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WP175 Infrastructures for ethnicity
2015
Social categories need to be continually replicated to endure. What drives replication are commentaries about others? social practices. In contemporary nation-states mass education, bureaucratic processes, and mass media create large participation …
Key words: methodology
WP173 Beyond the interview: Ethnicity/'race' in sociological research
2015
Taking up criticisms of sociological research as over-focusing on the interview, this paper considers what can be learned from looking beyond the interview in qualitative research and the implications for the study of ethnicity/?race?. The paper …
Key words: methodology
WP163 How an individual becomes a subject: Discourse, interaction, and subjectification at a Brazilian gender identity clinic
2015
Grounded in a Foucauldian genealogical approach to discourse analysis and in Goffmanian-inspired interactional analysis, this paper investigates how knowledge systems that pathologize transsexuality as a mental disorder get gradually embodied in …
Key words: methodology
WP161 Monsters, myths and Multilingual Creativity
2015
This article sets out the emergent sector of ?Multilingual Creativity?, the innovative range of initiatives which engage with the complexity and huge potential of multilingualism amongst young people. Instead of seeing multilingualism as simply the …
Key words: methodology
WP160 Skinscapes
2015
The paper argues for extending linguistic landscape studies to also encompass the body as a corporeal landscape, or ?moving discursive locality?. We articulate this point within a narrative of a developing field of landscape studies that is …
Key words: methodology
WP150 Ethnographic monitoring and the study of complexity.
2015
This paper explores the value of long-term fieldwork in the context of ever-increasing complexity in social life, itself a real challenge for civic society in key areas such as healthcare, social work, education, union work and so on.? This demands a …
Key words: methodology
WP145 Do people forget they're being taped? Linguistic ethnography and non-overt orientations to the recording device
2015
This paper focuses on the reaction of participants to being audio-recorded in research on talk-in-interaction. Recent years have seen a spate of articles debating this issue, focusing in particular on participants? *explicit* orientations to the …
Key words: methodology
WP135 From mobility to complexity in sociolinguistic theory and method
2014
I have for several years tried to address the effects of globalization on various aspects of the study of language in society, and this paper can be seen as an extension and deepening of earlier attempts ? on discourse and discourse analysis …
Key words: methodology, sociolinguisic theory
WP131 Between narrative analysis and narrative inquiry: The long story of small stories research
2014
This paper presents the disciplinary points of departure, key assumptions and analytical tools of small stories research (e.g. Bamberg 2006; Georgakopoulou 2006, 2007; Bamberg & Georgakopoulou 2008). Small stories research was at first put forth …
Key words: methodology
WP127 The politics of labeling youth vernaculars in the Netherlands and Belgium
2014
This paper critically analyzes the labelling of youthful language use in Belgium and the Netherlands. Urban youthful speech practices have in recent years been assigned a variety of labels, some of which have gained currency among insiders as well as …
Key words: methodology
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
WP123 Further notes on sociolinguistic scales
2014
This short paper reflects on the notion of sociolinguistic scales, drawing on Westinen?s doctoral research on ?Authenticity in Finnish hip hop?.? The lyrics of three rap artists ? Cheek, Pyhimys, and Stepa ? are examined, and this shows how all of …
Key words: methodology
WP118 Ariadne's thread: Literacy, scale and meaning making across space and time
2013
Ariadne's thread is a metaphor used by Latour (1987) to illustrate what he calls "networks of practices and instruments, of documents and translations" "that would allow us to pass with continuity from the local to the global". In Greek mythology the …
Key words: literacy, meaning, methodology
WP117 "Agents" or "participation"?: Sociolinguistic frameworks for the study of media engagement
2013
Focusing on a couple of studies published in Androutsopoulos (2014), this short paper considers two approaches to agency in sociolinguistics.? The first focuses on the agency of speakers, who are seen as individuals skilfully mobilising resources in …
Key words: methodology
WP115 Micro-analysis & "structures of feeling": Convention & creativity in linguistic ethnography (2004)
2013
There is currently a reflexive debate in US linguistic anthropology about the necessity, development and shape of general models of language as culture (Duranti 2003). Coming from outside, but following Hymes? view that ?problems lead where they …
Key words: anthropology, methodology
WP108 Combining surveys and ethnographies in the study of rapid social change
2013
This short research note is intended to stimulate debates across disciplinary and methodological-traditional boundaries.? In what follows we will attempt to sketch a broad methodological platform on which two very different methodological frameworks …
Key words: methodology
WP79 Lectal focusing in interaction: A new methodology for the study of superdiverse speech
2011
Variationist analysis is sometimes used to infer social meanings from overall rates of use of a given variant. In data from the Punjabi London community, we find that older and younger British Asian men have similar rates of use of certain …
Key words: methodology
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
WP25 Reflexivity & the research interview: Habitus and class in parents? accounts of children in public care
2004
The central question of this paper is: what reflexivity look like when it is being fleshed out on the basis of the Bourdieuan concept of habitus and when interviewing occasions are seen as operating in a linguistic market which is oriented toward the …
Key words: methodology