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WP250 Securitizing public space: A study of Kings Cross Station and Square
2019
This paper considers the role of contemporary securitization in the production of public spaces in London through a study of King's Cross Station and Square. It critically examines the security strategies in King's Cross Station and Square and the …
WP249 Language and regimes of communication: Students? struggles with norms & identities through chronotopic work
2019
Linguistic diversity is regarded as an unwelcome challenge in mainstream Danish education. In general, it is not introduced as educationally (or even socially) relevant, and there are few documented cases of successful school identities associated …
Key words: education
WP248 Advocating heteroglossia, dominating publics?
2019
In this paper, I address the fact that sociolinguists often advocate heteroglossic policies in education (and other monolingually organised domains) without extending this heteroglossia to public debate about language policy. At least there are …
Key words: language policy
WP247 Semilingualism: The life and afterlife of a sociolinguistic idea
2018
For half a century or more, semilingualism has been a controversial ? much debated and much derided ? idea. The present paper engages with some facets of this history. It traces the formation and early circulation in its context of origin: Sweden's …
Key words: linguistic theory
WP246 Goffman and the everyday interactional grounding of surveillance
2018
It is often said that surveillance has massively transformed our social lives (Lyon, Haggerty & Ball 2012:1), but this claim is weakened by the admission that its ?effects are difficult to isolate or observe, as they are embedded within many …
Key words: surveillance
WP245 Transidiomaticity and transperformances in Brazilian queer rap: Toward an abject aesthetics
2018
Queer rap has been said to be shining in the homophobic world of hip-hop lately, especially on the New York contemporary music scene. Considered by many as the new kids on the block, queer rappers have been breaking down mainstream ways of composing, …
WP244 Discourse, urban design, and professionalism in the new global city
2018
Sociolinguistic research has paid close attention to processes whereby language and communication get turned into commodities vis-?-vis the expansion of the service industries (Heller, 2010; Heller, Pujolar & Duch?ne, 2014) under the conditions …
Key words: language of work
WP243 Are chronotopes helpful?
2018
Do we really need yet another word for context?? What?s new about chronotopes?? This paper explains how the notion of chronotope provides a critical check of the validity and analytical power of the term ?context?, allowing us to observe superficial …
Key words: linguistic theory
WP242 Zombie landscapes: Apartheid traces in the discourses of young South Africans
2018
This paper explores how the spatiality of South Africa?s apartheid regime remains a structuring motif in the way young South Africans perceive and talk about place and space, despite that fact that apartheid officially ?ended? in 1994.? Illustrating …
Key words: apartheid, youth discourse
WP241 Language, neoliberalism, and the commodification of pedagogy
2018
This paper argues that, although research on neoliberalism and language commodification has helped reveal the material conditions under which language education programs are implemented worldwide, existing sociolinguistic literature has not yet …
Key words: pedagogy
WP240 Crossing of a different kind
2018
Is crossing is now an outdated concept, losing its distinctiveness in the ?trans-super-poly-metro movement??? To answer this question, this paper moves away from the scenes of vernacular multi-ethnic heteroglossia that have dominated the research on …
Key words: linguistic theory
WP239 Goffman: Key concepts in exploration of the interaction order
2018
These are brief notes that I often use when I teach Goffman, covering ?interactional arrangements?, ?ritual investment in interaction?, ?individual involvements in activity?, ?frames, realms and keying?, and ?implications?.? Though they differ in …
Key words: linguistic theory
WP238 Who gets to speak next: The patient with intellectual disabilities, her mother and her nurse
2018
People with intellectual disabilities experience marked health inequalities and inadequate healthcare is a major contributing factor.? Nurses and other clinicians are urged to address this and adjust their communication to maximize the engagement of …
Key words: healthcare communication, intellectual disability
WP237 Learning safely from error: Reconsidering the ethics of simulation-based medical education through ethnography
2018
This dialogical working paper results from the annual e-seminar of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF), which took place online between 1st & 22nd June 2017.? It focuses on Caroline Pelletier and Roger Kneebone?s 2016 article, ?Learning Safely …
Key words: education
WP236 The language portrait in multilingualism research: Theoretical and methodological considerations
2018
Language portraits, in which participants visualize their linguistic repertoire using the outline of a body silhouette, were originally developed as a language awareness exercise in education, and they are now increasingly employed as a research tool …
Key words: linguistic theory, methodology
WP235 Variation and identity: Stormzy's stylistic use of word-final schwa
2018
Despite recent interest in Multicultural London English, little qualitative research has been carried out into the use of its features in the light of sociolinguistic theories of identity creation. This dissertation addresses the gap by focusing on …
WP234 'Our Languages': Sociolinguistics in multilingual participatory ESOL classes
2018
Speakers of languages other than English in the UK frequently face barriers to their integration and wellbeing, not because they do not speak the language or are reluctant to learn it (a commonly repeated trope in political and public discourse) but …
Key words: ESOL
WP233 Promoting Linguistic Citizenship: Issues, problems & possibilities
2018
This paper sets Stroud?s ?Linguistic Citizenship? (LC) in dialogue (a) with Hymes? ethnographic sociolinguistics and (b) with language education in England.? LC?s commitment to democratic participation, to voice, to the heterogeneity of linguistic …
Key words: linguistic theory
WP232 Founding concepts: Sapir and Simmel on 'communication'
2017
Building on lecture notes from a course on the ?Ethnography of Communication?, this paper uses a close reading of two classic texts to establish some fundamental principles for the study of communicative practices in their social context(s), …
Key words: linguistic theory, methodology
WP231 Regimenting academic discourse: Additional-language summaries as an equivocal remedy for Anglophone science
2017
The dominance of English in scientific production raises issues in relation to certain responsibilities of Swedish universities, linked to the dissemination of knowledge and the development of the Swedish language. In light of this, the current paper …
Key words: education, language policy