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WP341 Around and beyond the DfE’s Curriculum & Assessment Review: Working across sectors for the future of language education
2025
Animated by general agreement that language education in England is too narrow, this article introduces a multi-layered approach to policy development, and outlines six tenets guiding the recently formed Coalition for Language Education: ‘Recognise …
Key words: language education, language policy
WP340 Jan Blommaert's sociolinguistics of digital culture
2025
This paper reviews and reflects upon Jan Blommaert’s Durkheim and the Internet (2018) and Online with Garfinkel (2019) as foundational texts for developing what he termed “a sociolinguistics of digital culture.” While …
Key words: culture, digital communication, discourse, sociolinguistics
WP338 Rhetorics of reinventing
2025
In applied and sociolinguistics at present, there are quite frequent calls to reinvent or rethink a particular tradition, paradigm or indeed the field itself. Sometimes this looks like a branding ploy, but at other times it is very weighty, and …
Key words: applied linguistics, methodology, sociolinguistics
WP337 Arts-activist literacies across a lifespan: An ethnographic biography of Ítala Isis and the (in)Visible Cities Movement in Rio de Janeiro
2025
This article presents an approach to biographical writing developed through ethnographic fieldwork on social movement literacies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From that wider range, the focus is on arts-activist literacies across the lifespan of one …
Key words: arts activism, Brazil, ethnography, insecuritisation, Literacy Studies
WP336 Digital technology as human experience
2025
This paper introduces the Language & Communication special issue Digital technology as human experience – adapting existing approaches to theorizing and analyzing digitally mediated interaction. The special issue has the …
Key words: applied linguistics, digital communication, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography
WP334 The pragmatics of hope among survivors of a terrorist attack
2025
This paper examines how survivors of a terrorist attack in Fortaleza, Brazil, and their allies navigated its aftermath. Through a focus group and interviews with students, professors, and other professionals—some present during the attack, others …
Key words: Brazil, hope, insecuritisation, survival
WP333 Migrant language education and participatory pedagogy in a Nation of Sanctuary
2025
Recent reports and research evidence on the organisation and provision of language education for migrants in the UK have illuminated numerous shortfalls. Challenges have been identified not only in the ability of providers to deliver enough English …
Key words: adult migrants, language teacher education, participatory pedagogy, Sanctuary, Wales
WP332 Indireto e abaixo do radar: a pragmática de ataques misóginos no populismo digital de Bolsonaro
2024
Numa abordagem etnográfica da linguagem, abordamos a “semiótica abaixo do radar” empregada por Jair Bolsonaro e seus estrategistas durante sua incumbência como presidente (2019-2022). Crystal Abidin (2021) sugere que a semiótica abaixo do …
Key words: Bolsonaro, digitalização, digitalization, públicos refratados, refracted publics, semiótica abaixo do radar, Under the radar semiotics
WP331 Existential challenges and interactional sociolinguistics/linguistic ethnography
2024
Artificial intelligence is certainly changing our lives, but wherever there is an interest in the ongoing interaction of people, culture, economy and environment, where different kinds of discourse, person, organism, object, technology and habitat …
Key words: Artificial intelligence, Existential challenges, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, Posthumanism
WP330 Worlds in grains of sand: Interactional sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography
2024
In a contribution to Milak & Tankosić’s Becoming a Linguist (Routledge), this paper begins with a brief sketch of interactional sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography (IS & LE) and then describes the experience of …
Key words: career trajectories, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography
WP329. Crítico or Criticón: Standing astride the boundary in language teacher education and critical sociolinguistics
2024
This paper sets out to interrogate the notion of “criticality” that inhabits Critical Sociolinguistics. Starting from two dispositions: being “crítico” (a critic) and being a “criticón” (a criticiser) that emerged whilst working as an …
Key words: critical sociolinguistics, teacher education
WP328. Decolonizing academic literacies through cariňo pedagogies: A narrative inquiry from a Master’s program in multilingual education
2024
The internationalization of postgraduate education at home through the use of English as a Medium of Instruction and the hiring of foreign faculty is seen by institutions in non-English dominant countries as an opportunity for local multilingual …
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WP327 Three considerations for teachers developing oracy education
2024
This piece outlines three key ideas about oracy – or what we might simply call spoken language – that are worthy of attention in teacher professional learning: spoken language is a tool for thinking and learning; variation in spoken …
Key words: Oracy education, Spoken language
WP326 A construção discursiva da instalação de portões nas ruas da zona oeste do Rio de Janeiro: um olhar etnográfico
2024
Na zona oeste do Rio de Janeiro, a mais pobre da cidade, portões vêm sendo instalados na entrada de ruas. Este artigo é fruto de uma pesquisa etnográfica de pequena escala, com foco em uma pequena rua dessa região. Os dados abrangem tanto …
Key words: discourse, neo-liberalisation, Rio de Janeiro, Securitisation
WP325. On language and the planetary: Édouard Glissant’s philosophy of multilingual Relation
2025
This article explores the lessons for antiracism provided by Édouard Glissant’s philosophy of language. The late Martinican scholar (1928-2011) writes extensively about language in correspondence to core concepts in his thought, in particular …
Key words: anti-racism, Édouard Glissant, multilingualism, opacity, philosophy of language, Relation, the planetary, Whole-World
WP 324 Linguistic Citizenship as decolonial pedagogy: How minoritized language speakers contest epistemic injustices in EFL education
2024
In this plenary, I revisit the notion of EFL as a cultural discourse that I developed in previous work by engaging with it from a Southern locus of enunciation. Mindful of how EFL pedagogies can still reproduce hegemonic and exclusionary ideologies, …
Key words: decolonisation, EFL, Linguistic Citizenship, Palestinian Arabic speakers
WP323 Founding Statement for a Coalition for Language Education
2024
This Coalition for Language Education is committed to developing the communicative capacities of individuals, groups and institutions and the range of languages and linguistic styles – the ‘linguistic repertoires’ – that they can …
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WP322 Problematic crossplay: Navigating moments of deviation in a voluntary community of practice
2024
The amateur arts form an important part of the UK’s cultural landscape, with a substantial number of people involved in ‘over 60,000 participant-driven, self-governed amateur arts groups’ (Milling et al, 2014, p.4). These voluntary, part-time …
Key words: amateur arts, amateur dance, communities of practice, micro-ethnography, multimodal conversation analysis