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WP101 Inauthentic authenticity: Semiotic design & globalization in the margins of China
2013
This paper investigates authenticity as semiotic processes in the context of China and its deepening globalization processes by drawing on ethnographic observations of Enshi, a remote ethnic minority area perceived and experienced as a geopolitical …
Key words: globalisation, semiotics
WP99 Placing shibboleths at the institutional gate: LADO tests and the construction of asylum seekers? identities
2012
The face of migration in Europe has changed quite dramatically after 1991, A new pattern of migration has emerged across many European urban conglomerates, involving a far more diverse population originating from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and …
Key words: LADO
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
WP97 Writing as a sociolinguistic object.
2012
Writing has never been a core object of sociolinguistics, and this paper argues for a mature sociolinguistics of writing. From a sociolinguistic viewpoint, writing needs to be seen as a complex of specific resources subject to patterns of …
Key words: sociolinguistics
WP96 Stance taking and social hierarchies: Using local dialect to construct the pre-adolescent social order
2012
Adolescence is understood to be the period when use of vernacular forms accelerates, and ?third wave? variation studies have provided a framework for understanding the social practices that construct teenage vernacular culture.? But adolescence does …
WP95 Citizenship, language and superdiversity: Towards complexity
2012
There is a dramatic need to unthink and rethink some of the most basic concepts in social science ? notions such as community, identity, and indeed citizenship. The reason for this is that since the early 1990s, some fundamental changes have taken …
Key words: citizenship and language
WP94 Trajectories of socialization in school transcontexts : Discourse journeys on gender and sexuality
2012
Socialization takes place not in bounded interactional episodes, but across communicative encounters. This aspect provides the general frame of the present paper which uses the concept of "trajectory of socialization" (Wortham 2005) to explore a …
WP93 Harmony as language policy in China: An internet perspective
2012
This paper provides an ethnographic understanding of harmony as language policy in China. We ground this understanding in a historical analysis of ?harmony? as a distinct traditional Chinese ideal that gradually finds its new expressions through …
Key words: language policy
WP92 Challenges for Linguistic Human Rights: ?Designer immigrant? students in Singapore
2012
Following an increase in awareness of how language is crucial to issues of social (in)equity, Linguistic Human Rights has developed as a prominent response to the threat of linguistic discrimination and marginalisation of peoples who speak and use a …
Key words: linguistic discrimination
WP90 Interpretative & representational dilemmas in a linguistic ethnographic analysis: Moving from "interesting data" to a publishable research article
2012
The article draws on linguistic ethnographic analysis of a video-recorded literacy lesson, and examines the complex movement from ?intriguing episode? to published article. It discusses (1) the key concepts and principles we drew upon in our analysis …
Key words: ethnography
WP89 Spoken language and doing drama.
2012
Drama rehearsals are a complex interactive process. They rely heavily on the spoken communication between the participants (such as actors and directors), no matter how much gesture and movement is involved. Drama is often thought of only in terms of …
Key words: drama
WP88 Learning a supervernacular: textspeak in a South African township
2012
In this paper, we will focus on the way in which a woman we call Linda acquires, maintains and deploys a ?supervernacular? (Blommaert 2011), and how she does this in conditions of extreme marginalization. The supervernacular in question is a variety …
Key words: sociolinguistics
WP87 Politics, policy and practice: ESOL in the UK and the USA
2012
In November 2011 the authors spoke at a seminar at King?s College London on the topic of policy and practice in adult ESOL. This paper draws on the talks at that seminar and the ensuing discussion between the authors. We frame it dialogically: we …
Key words: ESOL
WP86 Culture as accent.
2012
In consumer culture, culture increasingly appears as an ?accent?, an inflection of standard codes and norms.? The increased speed and intensity that characterizes the present economy of cultural forms and that finds its expressions in the widespread …
Key words: culture
WP85 Sociolinguistics and English language studies
2012
Like every disciplinary label, ?sociolinguistics? covers a tremendous variety of approaches. In some corners of sociolinguistics, it looks as very little has happened for the past couple of decades; in others however, new developments are emerging at …
Key words: ESL, sociolinguistics
WP84 Voicing as an essential problem of communication: Language in education for Chinese immigrant children in globalisation
2011
This article explores voicing processes of identity construction among migrant children inside China and in the Dutch Chinese diaspora. It is focused on the education related experiences of Chinese immigrants. We present three examples from our …
Key words: education
WP83 Understanding the value of milk, juice & water: The interactional construction & use of healthy beverages in a multi-ethnic classroom
2011
This article treats the socialization into healthy food practices in a Danish multi-ethnic kindergarten classroom. I analyze three situations where the health value of milk, water, and juice is topicalized. Health is considered a cultural, social, …
Key words: education
WP82 Analysing voice in educational discourses
2011
In this paper, we first outline the academic etymology of the concept of voice in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology (which are more or less synonymous to us). We then address the question of individual vs. social voice, and place the …
Key words: education