Events
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Exploring the Remainder: Adding Value to Quantitative Analyses of Variation
by Professor Miriam Meyerhoff (Victoria University of Wellington )
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What Actually Dies When a Language Dies?
by Professor Don Kulick (Uppsala University)
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Stance-taking and Affective-Discursive Practice: Enregistering Gender/Sexual Identities
by Professor Scott F. Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh)
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Autobiography as Topoanalysis: the Spatial Dimensions of Life-Writing
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor 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 […]
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Semiotic Emblems, Indexicality and Eliteness in Hong Kong
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUJackie 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, […]
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Eliteness Strategies: Recognising Eliteness and the Semiotics of ‘Artisanal’ Coffee
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUAndre 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’ […]
