I gave a talk about critical discourse studies and language policy at Leeds LLTPGR today. Here’s the Prezi.
Invited paper: Using critical discourse studies to investigate language policy and attitudes
Leeds University, Language, Linguistics and Translation PGR group (LLTPGR)
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The Prezi and notes from my first talk at #ss19 is now up: ‘Occupy globalise #Occupy: the global hegemony of resistance technologies’
Occupy global, globalise Occupy: the global hegemony of resistance technologies Freie Universität BerlinNB. I forgot to record this presentation, so I have included my notes below – this is not a polished publication, so you may find inaccuracies or…
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My talk at the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster- with prezi and sound
Discursive constructions of Scots from the pre-devolution era to the debates on independence University of Aberdeen[gigya src=”http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true”…
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My paper at #CADAAD - abstract and link to prezi
New tools for critical discourse studies in new media contexts
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Abstract
In this paper, I suggest guidelines for researchers who wish to study ‘new’ media contexts from a critical discourse studies (CDS)…
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Yesterday we had a departmental meeting all about teaching. Not about planning next year’s teaching, or about approving future courses or other administrative issues. Rather, it was a chance to present and discuss ideas for how teaching in the department…
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I’ve decided that tumblr doesn’t quite work for me, as an academic blog. It has many features I like, but doesn’t allow me to present my work and my thoughts quite the way I want. It’s too ephemeral, too fast-paced and perhaps also too… frivolous. Which isn’t to say that it can’t be used for serious purposes, but I find I get distracted by all the amazing, funny and also sometimes silly and trivial things people post here amidst more serious content.
So, I’m moving to Wordpress instead. Come and visit if you’re interested. So far I’ve just started adding my conference and publication abstracts from past years - but I’ll also be posting details of events, things related to my teaching, and when I have time some thoughts and comments about different aspects of my academic life.
I may carry on using tumblr for various purposes (watch this space).
whiteylovesthesoundsofblackness:
An examination of the contradictions in electoral racism in the UK.
Across the Channel, Nicholas Sarkozy has been shamelessly courting supporters of the extreme-right leader Marine Le Pen ‘by proposing a referendum on illegal immigrants, threatening to pull out of the Schengen agreement, and calling for the labelling of halal meat’.
Of course, these are exactly the tactics and politics which British mainstream parties followed in the 2010 election, on the question of ‘immigration’, ‘triangulating’ beyond the BNP and taking on board their policies. [snip]
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whiteylovesthesoundsofblackness:
Alongside the media and politicians’ sustained attacks on multiculturalism and immigration has come a call to promote British culture and to defend British jobs. This new-found national pride portrays Britain under threat – from external influences, liberal over-tolerance and an authoritarian egalitarianism. According to politicians and the press, England must be defended.
Such an embrace of Britishness puts a group like the English Defence League in prime position to be accepted into the respectable fold (if only it were to curb its members’ more unpleasant connections to overt violence). Yet it is precisely the attacks on multiculturalism, the emphasis on ‘the immigration problem’ and its impact on unemployment, and the demonisation of Asian men that create the climate for the EDL to thrive. [snip]
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