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WP50 Language, asylum, and the national order
2008
This paper discusses modernist reactions to postmodern realities. Asylum seekers in Western Europe ? people typically inserted in postmodern processes of globalisation ? are routinely subjected to identification analyses that emphasis the national …
WP49 Style contrasts and the figuration of trajectory.
2008
This paper focuses on the English of adolescents in multi-ethnic peer-groups in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s, and examines two binary style contrasts ? first, the very well-established contrast between posh and Cockney, and second, a much more …
Key words: style contrasts
WP48 Indexicalities of language contact in an era of globalization: Engaging John Gumperz? legacy
2007
In this paper, I discuss Gumperz?s statements regarding indexicality in different phases of his work: The ?Introduction? to Directions (1972); a framing essay in Rethinking linguistic relativity (1996); and a recent series of interviews and essays in …
Key words: globalisation, language contact
WP47 Migration & multilingualism: Implications for linguistic anthropology and education research
2007
Large-scale migration has numerous consequences for both migrants and host societies. These have sociopolitical, cultural and linguistic dimensions, and can be phrased as the challenge of grappling, theoretically and practically, with volatile …
Key words: linguistic anthropology, multilingualism
WP46 Goffman & globalisation: Participation frames and the spatial & temporal scaling of migration-connected multilingualism
2007
In this paper we argue that migration-based multilingual language contact, and features of multilingual engagement more generally, require concepts such as scale and scaling in order to capture the dialectic interplay between more durable features of …
Key words: globalisation
WP45 From endangered to dangerous: Two types of sociolinguistic inequality (with examples from Ireland & the US)
2007
The purpose of this paper is to open up a discussion of the contemporary dynamics of sociolinguistic inequality in a world that is being transformed in and by the intersection of two distinct but related forces: on the one hand by massive and wide …
Key words: inequality, sociolinguistics
WP44 Space, scale and accents: Constructing migrant identity in Beijing
2007
This paper draws on the recently theorised notions of space and scale in sociolinguistics to investigate the complexity and micro-variation of the Chinese language in the context of mass internal migration, and the way in which sociolinguistic …
WP43 Linguistic ethnography, interactional sociolinguistics and the study of identities.
2007
This paper provides an overview of linguistic ethnography and interactional sociolinguistics, two closely related perspectives on communication, and in order to develop an account of their relevance to ?real world issues?, it discusses their …
Key words: ethnography, sociolinguistics
WP42 In the name of science?: On identifying an ethnolect in an Antwerp secondary school
2007
This article deals with the problematic of naming linguistic practices in the case of young urban speakers. It suggests that, while certain communities of practice might engage in linguistic behaviour that deviates from known linguistic practices, …
Key words: ethnolect
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, …
WP40 Analysing class & ethnicity as communicative practices: A case study of migration-based multilingualism in Upstate New York
2006
Although the educational difficulties Latinos experience in US are well-documented, the interplay between social class and ethnic status is controversial and poorly understood. Additionally, we lack models which translate ethnicity and class, as …
WP39 Exploring linguistic and ethnic self among Korean students learning English
2006
During the past decade, identity has become one of the significant constructs in educational research. In particular, the recognition of learners? identity in the process of language learning marks a paradigm shift in Second Language Acquisition …
Key words: ESL, ethnic self, linguistics
WP37 Sociolinguistic scales
2006
Globalization compels disciplines such as sociolinguistics to unthink their theoretical fundamentals. In this paper, the notion of scale is introduced and its potential purchase for sociolinguistic analysis is discussed. Scale is a theoretical notion …
Key words: globalization, indexicality, inequality, norms, power, scale, sociolinguistics
WP36 Peripheral normativity: Literacy & the production of locality in a South African township school
2006
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of classroom practices in a township school in the Wesbank settlement near Cape Town, South Africa. Focusing on the ways in which a multilingual and highly diverse student population confronts English …
Key words: globalisation, literacy, locality, marginalisation, normativity, repertoires, South Africa, world Englishes
WP35 Popular culture consumption and identities at school
2006
This paper draws from a three-year project entitled ?Urban Classroom Culture and Interaction? that investigates the significance of teen consumption of media and popular culture within the everyday environment of a multi-ethnic secondary school. This …
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
WP33 Dialogue in schools: Towards a pragmatic approach
2006
In this paper I question the relevance and appropriateness of prevailing ideals of dialogue for educational practice within schools.? First, I examine five core aspects common to most theories: dialogue as a communicative pattern, dialogue as a means …
Key words: education
WP32 Ethnopoetics as functional reconstruction: Dell Hymes? narrative view of the world
2006
In what follows, I will introduce ethnopoetics in general terms, avoiding a technical expos? (for which, anyway, there is no substitute to reading Hymes? work) but focusing on the main theoretical assumptions underlying it. Next, I will engage in a …
Key words: ethnopoetics
WP31 Late modernity and social class: The view from sociolinguistics
2005
This paper is a non-technical introduction to some of the basic principles of sociolinguistic analysis, and it looks at how different accents get used in interaction, linking this to the issue of British social class.
Key words: sociolinguistics