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WP81 Supervernaculars and their dialects
2011
This paper introduces the term ?supervernacular? as a descriptor for new forms of semiotic codes emerging in the context of technology-driven globalization processes. Supervernaculars are widespread codes used in communities that do not correspond to …
Key words: sociolinguistics
WP80 Class in class: Ideological processes of class in desegregated classrooms in South Africa
2011
This paper examines data from a desegregated school in South Africa and will focus on the way in which particular forms of English schooled literacy reflect and articulate class distinctions. After Apartheid, South Africa embarked on a wholesale …
WP79 Lectal focusing in interaction: A new methodology for the study of superdiverse speech
2011
Variationist analysis is sometimes used to infer social meanings from overall rates of use of a given variant. In data from the Punjabi London community, we find that older and younger British Asian men have similar rates of use of certain …
Key words: methodology
WP78 A neo-Hymesian trajectory in applied linguistics
2011
Rather than attempting a panoramic overview, this paper looks at knowledge construction in applied linguistics through the prism of a piece of data.? It follows the analysis of this data into an academic argument, into a research training programme, …
Key words: applied linguistics
WP77 Computer-assisted systematic observation of classroom discourse & interaction
2011
This report details methods and findings from the computer-assisted systematic observation component of the ESRC-funded Towards Dialogue: A Linguistic Ethnographic Study of Classroom Interaction and Change project. The background to this research is …
Key words: education
WP76 Enough is enough: The heuristics of authenticity in superdiversity
2011
This short paper sketches an empirical theory of identity in a context of superdiversity.? It intends to offer a realistic, yet generalizable, approach to inquiries into the complexities of contemporary identity practices. Such practices now evolve …
Key words: superdiversity
WP75 Language, social categories and interaction.
2011
This short paper considers the treatment of identity in sociolinguistics, advocating an interactional approach that reckons with social indexicality; it draws on research on language, ethnicity and class; and it proposes a solution to the problem of …
Key words: identity, sociolinguistics
WP74 Standardisation, diversity and enlightenment in the contemporary crisis of EU language policy
2011
Contemporary EU multilingualism policy is in something of a crisis at the moment. The 2008 Final Report of the High-Level Group on Multilingualism, a group of eleven senior European academics convened in 2006, spells out some of the reasons (these …
Key words: multilingualism
WP73 Here and there: Space and social positioning in the identity narratives of Andalusian migrants
2011
This article explores a set of identity?related narratives collectively constructed by a group of Andalusian (Southern Spain) migrants settled in Aarhus, Denmark, in a focus group interview. Linking up to previous narrative work in which the role of …
Key words: focus groups, identity, migration, narrative, small‐stories, space
WP71 Multilingual Europe 2.0: Dutch-Chinese youth identities in the era of superdiversity
2011
This paper argues that multilingual/multicultural identity in Europe has reached a next level since we have entered the era of superdiversity. Under superdiversity we are confronted with a diversification of diversity: relations between ethnicity, …
Key words: multilingualism
WP70 Language and superdiversity: A position paper
2011
This paper explores the scope for research on language and superdiversity.1 Following a protracted process of paradigm shift, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology are well placed to engage with the contemporary social changes associated with …
Key words: research
WP67 Repertoires revisited: 'Knowing language' in superdiversity
2011
Repertoire belongs to the core vocabulary of sociolinguistics, yet very little fundamental reflection has been done on the nature and structure ofrepertoires. In early definitions, repertoires was seen as a triad of language resources, knowledge of …
Key words: competence, globalization, indexical biography, language learning, repertoire, sociolinguistics, subjectivity, super-diversity
WP66 "This isn't possible anymore": Indexical shifts in a white urban dialect
2011
This paper argues that in interactions among teenagers at a secondary school in Antwerp one can find indications of a shift taking place in the connotation potential and usability of a traditionally ?white? urban dialect. Although multi-ethnic …
Key words: dialect
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) …
WP64 "I am not a qualified dialect rapper": Genre innovation as authenticity
2010
This paper attempts to address features of mixed, multi-layered language use in hip-hop produced in Enshi, China, which largely draws on the stigmatized fangyan/dialect local to Enshi, but breaks out of it by blending it with resources from the …
Key words: authenticity
WP63 Policy, policing & the ecology of social norms: Ethnographic monitoring revisited
2010
Ethnography and Language Policy represents an attempt towards paradigmatic change in the study of language policy. The attempt ? characterized by the editor in terms of Hymes? ?ethnographic monitoring? ? consists of a series of shifts in objects, …
Key words: language policy
WP62 Semiotic and spatial scope: Towards a materialist semiotics
2010
We wish in this paper to join a project that, in our view, ties together much of Gunther Kress? work, and can also be found, among others, in the ?Geosemiotics? developed by Scollon & Scollon (2003). This project is the construction of a …
Key words: semiotics