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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 by the philosopher Gaston Bachelard and defined by him as ‘the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives’ – in relationship to […]
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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, rather than those at the higher end, but by attending to those who are the most privileged and powerful, the so-called ‘elites’, we can better […]
