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Negotiating access with public authorities in research on asylum more. This paper tells the story of obstacles and challenges to fieldwork in a research project exploring migrants' narratives in the asylum process in Sweden, where, rather than facilitating data collection, the Swedish Migration Authority This paper tells the story of obstacles and challenges to fieldwork in a research project exploring migrants' narratives in the asylum process in Sweden, where, rather than facilitating data collection, the Swedish Migration Authority appeared to create barriers.

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This had implications both for the project and for individual case workers and interpreters; in the praxis of informed consent, our own strict interpretation became an unnecessary drawback; and in our attempt to overcome the obstacles, we actively involved the national press. The discussion is framed within an overall concern for the role of research in society, and its benefits and risks in relatively closed sectors, raising issues of personal privacy, security and trust.

How we feel and think about language: Language ideologies and the 'total linguistic fact' more. What do we mean by multilingual? Linguistic repertoires more. Superdiversity makes the relationships between language and identity more unpredictable, but there are still socio-linguistic structures that guide the ways we talk.

WP Bock Decolonising linguistics: A southern African textbook project more. This paper uses a decolonial lens to explore the development of a southern African Linguistics textbook. Working with Santos's sociology of emergences, it argues that the project created a participatory space which enabled emerging Working with Santos's sociology of emergences, it argues that the project created a participatory space which enabled emerging academics to develop as scholars. It suggests that a key aspect of this growth can be attributed to the shift in register that writing for a first-year audience required, and that writing collaboratively allowed new and enriching collegial relations to emerge.

It further traces how the experience of bringing the text to publication engendered a sense of confidence and 'euphoria', a prerequisite for the development of voice and epistemic authority. Also drawing on Mignolo, this paper argues that changing the 'terms' of the disciplinary conversation is a prerequisite to changing the 'content'.

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In other words, decolonising the curriculum depends first on enabling local scholars to see themselves as producers, not just consumers, of knowledge. WP Milani Trump, existential threats and the banality of evil - Or why sociolinguists should re read Hannah Arendt more. Theoretically, the article argues for the importance of Theoretically, the article argues for the importance of re- purposing some of the ideas of Hannah Arendt, who has remained somewhat neglected in sociolinguistic inquiry.

Ultimately, the paper argues that Trump and the members of Nya Moderaterna in Sweden are terrifyingly normal. As Arendt would say, each of these discursive elements is like a spore in a growing fungus that might not have much depth, but is spreading quickly into the very centre of the political debate in Sweden. The paper lays out my interpretation of the theory, methods and politics underpinning interactional sociolinguistics IS , and sets this next to five recent papers by scholars with Southern links. WP MCM Call for a Multilingual Cities Movement more. We are academics and practitioners committed to multilingualism.

Shared language is vital to social life, but linguistic diversity also plays a central role, and both the individual and society are enriched by language skills. We call on We call on colleagues as well as students, activists and officials to pool our energies and expertise, to ensure that multilingualism and linguistic diversity are properly valued, developed and understood. Multilingual consultations in urgent medical care more.

Ad hoc multilingual solutions, significant as they are, require additional language support to avoid diagnostic insecurity. On the theoretical and empirical bases of translanguaging more. Studies in the ss and continuing later produced a systematic and sustained understanding of codeswitching but this now seems to be unravelling under the weight of the new term, Translanguaging.

It is therefore imperative that we It is therefore imperative that we closely examine i what new generalizable knowledge is offered by the theoretical construct of translanguaging, and ii what new empirical coverage it provides. Addressing these questions, this paper argues that translanguaging does not take our theoretical understanding of bilingual language use beyond what the sociolinguistic studies of code-switching have offered, and that there is a lack of empirical support for its claims to move 'beyond' named languages, creating 'new language practices' that are different from 'a synthesis of different language practices' or 'a hybrid mixture'.

WP Sankaran Emphasising the need to go beyond purely spatial conceptualisations, this paper investigates the ways in which patterns of mobility among Sri Lankan Tamils SLTs interact with diasporic identifications with the 'homeland' and Emphasising the need to go beyond purely spatial conceptualisations, this paper investigates the ways in which patterns of mobility among Sri Lankan Tamils SLTs interact with diasporic identifications with the 'homeland' and 'host-land'.

SLT migration has been driven by war for over twenty-six years, leading to the formation of a substantial diaspora of around one million people Orjuela ; Venugopal ; David, Issues of resettlement, relocation and dislocation-i. To probe what 'homeland' and 'host-land' mean in this experience, the paper draws both on theoretical models of diasporic identity and ethnographic data.

WP Silva Enregistering the nation: Bolsonaro's populist branding of Brazil more. This paper is concerned with Jair Bolsonaro's strategy of branding some enregistered tokens of recent polarizations, clashes and alignments that have indexed emerging forms of right-wing political membership in Brazil. In a short period In a short period of time, Bolsonaro went from being unknown in the national political debate to being an emblem for sectors of the population dissatisfied with the "system", and now to being a far-right populist president widely cited in Brazilian and international discussions of politics.

Empirically, the paper focuses on the historical conditions for the emergence of the populist register that the Bolsonaro campaign appropriated and commoditized in its digital strategy of recruiting voters.

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In a scalar movement that, according to Ernesto Laclau, is typical of populism, Bolsonaro extended the category of the "people" beyond the plebs i. Through an intricate mechanics of digital groups in WhatsApp and social media, Bolsonaro's campaign simultaneously spread particular binary political tokens and grouped them under certain rubrics that circulated as brands of Brazil as a place that represents conservative values and aspirations.

WP Milde Linguistics in drama processes more. Doing drama is a complex interactive process. Drama processes, such as rehearsals, rely heavily on the spoken communication between the participants such as actors, directors, performance artists , no matter how much gesture and movement Drama processes, such as rehearsals, rely heavily on the spoken communication between the participants such as actors, directors, performance artists , no matter how much gesture and movement is involved.

Drama is often thought of only in terms of a final product, such as a performance or a script, rather than as a creative communication and working process that can be spread out over a longer period of time before reaching its final stage. In spite of all the research and analysis dedicated to drama, discursive research has rarely been carried out on theatre practice and its authentic discourse, which constitute part of the everyday working process for theatre practitioners the world over.

This paper explores from a discursive perspective what is going on in drama processes and introduces the method I have developed for researching drama processes. Publication Date: WP Blackman 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 I adopt Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space to deconstruct the formal and informal processes that shape the everyday reality of the station and square, and conclude by reflecting on whether security concerns and perceived risks constrain the possibilities for meaningfully producing and reproducing public space. 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 In general, it is not introduced as educationally or even socially relevant, and there are few documented cases of successful school identities associated with minority languages.

More often than not, when linguistic diversity emerges in the everyday life of classrooms, it produces difficult and paradoxical situations. In this contribution, we analyse two such situations from mainstream Danish classrooms, where linguistic resources associated with minority ethnicity are introduced in relation to platform performances. The situations offer an insight into language ideologies that was generally left implicit during the everyday school life.

Using the analytic lens of the chronotope we discuss how certain identities, linguistic norms and resources become intrinsically linked to particular activities in mainstream education. In our case studies, we show how bringing about and encouraging the use of resources associated with minority ethnicity may actually enforce a chronotopical understanding that links Standard Danish to academic success. This happens largely because the use of resources associated with minority ethnicity is framed as comical and entertaining — or in other cases not analysed here problematic.

In one case, the participants exploit the comical potential. In the other case, the teachers encourage the use of minority language for reasons of entertainment, which leads to uncomfortable moments.

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WP Jaspers Advocating heteroglossia, dominating publics? 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 At least there are important trends in the discipline which argue that existing policies are not based on evidence, and propose that policy should adapt to the heteroglossic, fluid linguistic reality that their research describes.

Using examples from sociolinguistic work on repertoires, linguistic citizenship and translanguaging, I try to underline the vulnerability of an evidence-based tactic for advocating heteroglossia, and suggest that sociolinguists may be more effective if they use their knowledge to expand the range of alternatives for relevant stakeholders, rather than trying to decide what is good for them. Semilingualism: The life and afterlife of a sociolinguistic idea more. 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 It traces the formation and early circulation in its context of origin: Sweden's nascent fields of bilingualism research and minority education. The paper analyzes semilingualism as a 'traveling idea', which has moved through networks of actors over an extended period of time. In Sweden from the late s to the early s, semilingualism was a key theme a range of discursive exchanges. It circulated in scholarly discussions about bilingualism and linguistic competence, and surged as a central theme in political debates on minority education, immigration and language policy.

It likewise recurred in the media, and in various articulations of public opinion. In the course these travels, the idea of semilingualism became more and more implicated in the processes of revising Sweden's policies on linguistic minorities. By the s, as the paper argues, the idea had begun to function as a 'policy-driver', which aided the nationwide introduction of the school subject of mother tongue instruction MTI for minority students. While most linguists have come to dismiss semilingualism as a scientifically flawed concept, the idea of semilingualism, as the paper shows, had nevertheless a decisive impact in policy making.

This impact is still visible the inclusion of MTI in Sweden's national curriculum. This societal impact of this sociolinguistic idea, as well as the lasting consequences thereof, points to the importance of a reflexive sociolinguistics, which takes interest in the life and afterlife of the ideas it produces.

The paper contributes to this endeavor. Goffman and the everyday interactional grounding of surveillance more. It shows how different senses of potential threat and illegality enter the experience of surveillance, and it builds a rudimentary model.

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In this paper, we focus on how Rico Dalasam, a contemporary Brazilian rap performer, radicalizes this type of rupture, engaging in what we have termed 'abject aesthetics'. The latter constitutes a spectacular semiotic landscape, in which mixed sexualities, genders, races, ethnicities, clothing styles, hair styles, rhythms, languages and registers intersect.

In fact, transperformances and transidiomaticity dominate his work, which we approach through a scalar sensitive lens Carr and Lempert and metapragmatic indexicality Silverstein as we analyze the artist's lyrics, performances and their reception by different audiences.