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WP121 Michael Silverstein in conversation: Translatability and the uses of standardisation
2014
Michael Silverstein is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Psychology at the University of Chicago, and has played a central role in the development of contemporary US linguistic anthropology. …
Key words: anthropology, translation
WP120 Voices of linguistic outrage: Standard language constructs and the discourse on new urban dialects
2014
This paper investigates the discursive processes at work in public debates on a type of new urban dialect that has been under intense, often heated public discussion in recent years: variants of majority languages that emerged in multiethnic and …
Key words: multiethnolects, Othering, public discourse, racism by proxy, Standard Ger-man, standard language ideology
WP119 Urban vernaculars in contemporary northern Europe: Innovative variants of V2 in Germany, Norway and Sweden
2014
It has been relatively clear over the last years that multilingual settings support new linguistic variation and the emergence of new linguistic patterns. Contemporary urban vernaculars have emerged among adolescents in multilingual settings in large …
Key words: multilingualism
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
WP116 Breaking classroom silences in London and Nicosia.
2013
Just like silences themselves, breaking silence can be good or bad, but how do you decide? That is obviously not an exclusively academic question, but the answer is going to be influenced by how a rupture is actually analysed, and this paper proposes …
Key words: education
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
WP114 Language & class revisited: The issue of vernacular maintenance
2013
The rise and fall of ?class? as an academic concept has been documented extensively.? But as interest in class has waned, inequality has continued to be a major issue in the UK (Skeggs 2004: 43; Savage 2000).? In some contexts, inequality and …
Key words: class
WP113 Language and the study of diversity.
2013
Language is one of the most immediate and sensitive indexes of diversity and social change, and it is a key tool for organizing and navigating them.? Attention to the small details of language usage offers a privileged entrance into broader and less …
Key words: diversity
WP112 'Taking up speech' in an endangered language: Bilingual discourse in a heritage language classroom
2013
This working paper is the result of the recently held annual e-seminar of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF), which took place online between May 20 and June 2, 2013, convened by Jef Van der Aa and Frances Giampapa, members of the LEF Steering …
Key words: bilingualism, endangered languages
WP111 Global informal learning environments and their effects on the Chinese middle class
2013
This paper engages with the ways in which formal learning environments increasingly have to compete with informal ones, where such informal learning environments can be seen as penetrations from global ?scapes? into local conditions of circulation …
Key words: China, informal learning, middle class, mobility, online-offline research, taste, virtual ethnography
WP110 David Parkin in interview: Anthropology, language & diversity
2013
David Parkin was Professor of African Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London until 1996, and then Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford until 2008, when he retired and became Emeritus …
Key words: anthropology, diversity
WP109 Complementary schools as ?safe spaces? to practise hybridity?: Language, power and resistance
2013
The discourses around complementary schools in the UK seem to emphasise a positive atmosphere created within these institutions for exploration of various identity positions. Yet, my main argument in this paper is that these schools are not such …
Key words: education
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
WP106 Whose integration?
2013
What does the term ?integration? mean to adult ESOL learners? What facilitates their sense of belonging in the UK? What are the barriers they face? What are their opinions about anti-migrant policy and rhetoric? The ?Whose Integration? project …
Key words: ESOL
WP105 Literacies studies as linguistic ethnography.
2013
This paper makes the case for the continuing importance of literacy studies within linguistic ethnography, particularly given the nature of the kinds of societies in which we are working.? It underlines the importance of continuing to develop …
Key words: ethnography, literacies
WP104 From feature 'pool' to 'pond': The ecology of new urban vernaculars
2013
This paper investigates systematic patterns in a new urban vernacular from Germany, ?Kiezdeutsch?, sug-gesting that what we find here is not a mere accumulation of features, but that the feature pool available in linguistically diverse contexts can …
Key words: dialect, feature pools
WP103 Critical sociolinguistics and critical pedagogy: Dialogue in a multilingual Hong Kong school
2013
In its understanding of social reality as discursively constructed, critique has illuminated how social inequality works at the local level, while also facilitating the development of transformational projects aimed at empowering certain social …
Key words: pedagogy, sociolinguistics
WP102 The Amager project: A study of language and social life among minority children & youth
2013
The Amager project studies language use, linguistic resources and language norms in the everyday life of contemporary children and adolescents under the current superdiverse social conditions. The project is situated in Copenhagen, the capital of …
Key words: language norms, language use