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WP98 Drilling down to the grain in superdiversity.
2012
This paper tackles the traditional split between sociolinguistics and second language research with a fine-grained but integrated account of linguistic form, language ideology and situated practice ? what Silverstein calls the ?total linguistic fact? …
Key words: SLA, sociolinguistics
WP65 Style in a second language.
2011
This working paper is designed as an exploratory contribution to the study of L2 style that (a) avoids an a priori separation of first and second language speakers, (b) analyses artful performance and L2 linguistic limitations together, and (c) …
WP41 Where's class in second language learning?
2006
It is well-established that social class is an important aspect of the demography of immigration (Sassen, 1997), but how class conditions are understood, by immigrants as well as by member of the host society, is much less well studied. Similarly, …
WP11 Dichotomies, Difference and Ritual in Second Language Learning and Teaching
1998
This paper questions the distinction between 'natural' and 'instructed' language learning. It first of all introduces two extracts in which adolescents use Panjabi as a second language in peer group recreation, and then shows how these contradict …
Key words: SLA