[Lgpolicy-list] [lg policy] Fwd: Sociolinguistic working papers now tweeting @UrbLang

[Harold Schiffman]

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Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 5:09 PM
Sociolinguistic working papers now tweeting @UrbLang





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   *Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies
<https://kcl.academia.edu/WorkingPapersinUrbanLanguageLiteracies>* is now
tweeting – you can follow us @UrbLang  (http://twitter.com/UrbLang)



*WPULL/ UrbLang
<https://kcl.academia.edu/WorkingPapersinUrbanLanguageLiteracies> *is a
fast outlet for research on linguistic practice, literacies and mediated
communication in diverse and stratified urban settings.  It based at King’s
College London <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc> and has a track-record publishing
papers at the cutting edge of sociolinguistics,

·         broadening its theoretical vocabulary with concepts like
‘securitisation’, ‘governmentality’, ‘complexity’, ‘scale’ and
‘superdiversity’

·         interrogating or reformulating established notion like
‘ethnolect’, ‘repertoire’ and ‘speech community’

·         developing new methods in variationist sociolinguistics and
linguistic ethnography

·         investigating the culture and politics of language education



There are papers coming up on:

·         language ideology firestorms and how to survive at their centre
(Heike Wiese)

·         language work in a call-centre: the first linguistic ethnography
(Johanna Woydack)

·         teaching the language of a former enemy and how it challenges
assumptions about language pedagogy (Constadina Charalambous, Panayiota
Charalambous & Ben Rampton)

·         ‘conviviality’ in superdiverse urban environments – can we really
pin it down? (Ben Rampton)

·         history and challenges for bilingual education in Hong Kong
(Miguel Pérez Milans)



Contributors to *WPULL/ UrbLang
<https://kcl.academia.edu/WorkingPapersinUrbanLanguageLiteracies>* also
include Jan Blommaert, Jim Collins, Jie Dong, Branca Fabrício, Alexandra
Georgakopoulou, Roxy Harris, Jürgen Jaspers, Cathy Kell, Martha Karrebæk,
Adam Lefstein, Lian Madsen, Rob Moore, David Parkin, Michael Silverstein,
Julia Snell, Max Spotti, Karin Tusting, and Piia Varis.



Follow us at  @UrbLang - http://twitter.com/UrbLang





Ben Rampton, Editor *Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies
<https://kcl.academia.edu/WorkingPapersinUrbanLanguageLiteracies>*

Centre for Language Discourse & Communication

King’s College London

www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc

Twitter feed @UrbLang

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

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