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WP59 An everyday poetics of class and ethnicity in stylization and crossing
2010
This paper looks at how the artful and the everyday are interwoven in situated activity, and in its analysis of crossing and stylisation among adolescents, it suggests that the dynamic relationship between poetic and ordinary speech can help to …
WP58 Crossing: A review of research
2010
This paper discusses ?language crossing?, the use of a language or variety that feels anomalously ?other? for the participants in an activity, involving movement across quite sharply sensed social or ethnic boundaries, in ways that can raise …
Key words: language crossing
WP57 Historical bodies and historical space
2010
Theoretically sophisticated ethnography is rare, and it takes an effort to discover it, because sometimes it is found in work that does not announce or present itself as ?typical? ethnography (the fieldwork-based monograph is still the ?typical? …
Key words: ethnography
WP56 The enregisterment of Putonghua in practice
2009
This paper explores Putonghua enregisterment as a supra-local linguistic standard through daily discursive practice of its speakers. Drawing on ethnographic data including observation, interview and documentation, I discuss the emergence and spread …
Key words: ethnography, language prestige
WP55 Community, commodification, cosmopolitanism: Salsa and ideologies of language in transnational settings
2008
Salsa, a global urban music and dance phenomenon, is an interesting example for the emergence of transnational cultural spheres. Salsa has its roots in the Americas but is enormously successful worldwide. While the language spoken on the dance floors …
Key words: community, multilingualism
WP54 Doing Nakl : A Mimicry of Resistance by British-born South Asian Adolescents in East London
2008
After showing that "ethnic absolutism" no longer holds sway, I report on the imitation, or nakl - a term that this paper introduces - of some South Asian people by five British South Asian college students. My informants do nakl in London English, …
Key words: adolescents, identity
WP53 Urban Classroom Culture and Interaction: End-of-Project Report
2008
What?s going on in contemporary urban classrooms?? Education policy advocates whole-class teaching fronted by the teacher, but just how workable are traditional forms of pedagogy?? What?s the influence in school of popular culture and the new media, …
Key words: education
WP52 Is class relevant in constructing a multilingual Europe?
2008
It is a commonplace of discussions of globalism, and of official European self-understanding, that multilingualism and linguistic diversity are unavoidable features of the contemporary world in general and of particular significance to the emerging …
Key words: class, multilingualism
WP51 Rituals of order, blame & redemption: Coping with failing in a working class school
2008
This paper is about the current regime for the regulation of primary schools in England, and how this regime shapes discourses about success-and-failure, social class and the allocation of blame.? Within the current wave of educational reforms in …
Key words: education
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 …