Professor Laura Marcus - Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature - New College, University of Oxford (https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-laura-marcus) Abstract In this talk, I explore the concept of topoanalysis – theorised most fully […]
Jackie Militello - The University of Hong Kong Abstract Scholars in sociolinguistics tend to study inequality by focusing on people at the lower end of the power and economic spectrum, […]
Andre Joseph Theng - The University of Hong Kong Abstract In recent years, sociolinguistic research has been increasingly concerned with the notion of the discursive construction of eliteness. ‘Elite discourse’ […]
Deadline for proposals:
December 1, 2019 or until a suitable candidate is identified, but not later than 30 April, 2020.
Dr Rebecca Starr - National University of Singapore (http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/ell/People_Faculty_SRL.html) Abstract Although orientation towards local linguistic norms is increasing in Singapore, Singapore English (SgE) is still perceived by some as a […]
Dr Nicholas Luke - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr%20Nicholas%20Luke) Abstract This paper challenges one of the most influential readings of Shakespeare in the last half-century: that of the “ordinary […]
Professor Monica Heller - University of Toronto (https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/sje/People/1615/Monica_Heller.html) Abstract A few years ago, the University of Toronto Press approached me and Bonnie McElhinny with a proposal that we produce a […]
Professor Crispin Thurlow - University of Bern (https://www.ens.unibe.ch/about_us/staff/prof_dr_thurlow_crispin/index_eng.html) Abstract The prime technique of power is now escape, slippage, elision and avoidance … Zygmunt Bauman (2000: 11) The infinity pool is […]
