Quentin Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 129669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Quentin Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Quentin |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4798-5578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards a sociolinguistics of in difference: Stancetaking on others
This paper proposes a sociolinguistics of in difference , an inquiry-based approach to stancetaking on others. It describes how multilingual speakers in an online context orientate towards a stance-object and affiliate, align and negotiate difference through embodied performances, as part of advancing an ethics of responsibility for the other and aesthetic investments. In the analysis of such orientations, I draw on virtual interactional data to …
Public Applied Linguistics in Action: A Conversation Between Emile YX? Jansen and Quentin Williams on Hip Hop Culture & Activism, Afrikaaps, Indigeneity, and Decolonial Futures
Emile YX? & Quentin Williams: We are two activists working towards the same goal, with slightly different tools of description and analysis. Emile YX?: I bring Hip Hop culture, Knowledge of Self and Education are my tools. For me biography, a definition of activism and an understanding of the importance of language, indigeneity. and what our futures will look like as marginalized speakers are important. Quentin Williams: Aweh (that’s real). I lik…
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Into Collabs: Public Applied Linguistics and Hip Hop Language Technicians
In this article, I propose the idea of public applied linguistics: that is, a type of applied linguistics that sees applied linguists doing the work of activism, with language activists, in the public, are (i) invested in the artistic representation of linkages between language reinvention and new relationalities, and (ii) highlighting, documenting and framing interventionist debates around language. Public applied linguists encounter, discourse …
Multilingual Margins
In this article I explore the relationship between language, education and community.Based on the concepts of linguistic citizenship and funds of knowledge, I analyse education for citizenship in Mozambique, specifically the empowerment of communities and their knowledge in bilingual education as one of the impacts of the ideological and political orientations that govern the recent educational reform in Mozambique.Combining Linguistic Ethnograph…
Fitting in: Stylizing and (re)negotiating Congolese youth identity and multilingualism in Cape Town
Changing tastes on the linguistic landscape of Asmara, Eritrea
Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, has for the longest time had a clear demarcation between Christian and Muslim eateries, with Arabic as the differentiating marker between the two. With the in?ux of Sudanese Muslim tourists, however, a number of Christian eateries in downtown Asmara have begun including Arabic on their signage. We approach the changes to the LL in two ways: (i) through a geosemiotic analysis of selected mixed signs on and arou…
Lusophone Hip-Hop: Who We Are’ and ‘Where We Are’: Identity, Urban Culture and Belonging, edited by Rosana Martins and Massimo Canevacci
Since its inception, Hip Hop culture has rapidly grown, redefining the nature of popular culture and music. The culture’s spread to locations far and wide across the globe has given young people, d
Multilingualism as utopia: Fashioning non-racial selves
The challenge of contemporary South Africa is that of building a (post)nation of postracial equity in a fragmented world of a globalized ethical, economic and ecological meltdown. In this paper, we seek to explore the idea of multilingualism as a technology in the conceptualization of alternative, competing futures. We suggest that multilingualism is understood in terms of how encounters across difference are mediated and structured linguisticall…
Multilingualism Remixed: Sampling, Braggadocio and the Stylisation of Local Voice
Among the many challenges posed by contexts of social transformation and extensive mobility is the question of how multilingual voice may carry across media, modalities and context. In this article, we suggest that one approach to this complex problem may be to look at multilingual voice from a sociolinguistic perspective of performance. Our focus here is thus on how marginalised voices on the periphery of Cape Town become mainstreamed within the…
Multilingualism remixed: Sampling, braggadocio and the stylisation of local voice
Among the many challenges posed by contexts of social transformation and extensive mobility is the question of how multilingual voice may carry across media, modalities and context. In this paper, we suggest that one approach to this complex problem may be to look at multilingual voice from a sociolinguistic perspective of performance. Our focus here is thus on how marginalised voices on the periphery of Cape Town become mainstreamed within the c…
Investigation of Islamic ceramics from Tell Tuneinir using X‐ray diffraction
In this study, X‐ray diffraction (XRD) is applied to select ceramics, particularly dating to the Ayyoubid (A.D. 1174–1250) period from Tell Tuneinir in Syria. Because XRD has not been commonly applied to archaeological ceramics, a thorough background of the technique is given, with emphasis on quantitative measurements of quartz and calcite tempers. Several compositional groups based on raw materials and firing conditions emerge. While most ceram…
Infra-red Spectroscopy of Ceramics from Tell Brak, Syria
Projections from Actuality
Projected Actuality
Journal Article PROJECTED ACTUALITY Get access Quentin Williams Quentin Williams 10 Nevil Road, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 9EQ, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 35, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 273–277, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/35.3.273 Published: 01 July 1995
Infra-red Spectroscopy of Ceramics from Tell Brak, Syria
Investigation of Islamic ceramics from Tell Tuneinir using X‐ray diffraction
In this study, X‐ray diffraction (XRD) is applied to select ceramics, particularly dating to the Ayyoubid (A.D. 1174–1250) period from Tell Tuneinir in Syria. Because XRD has not been commonly applied to archaeological ceramics, a thorough background of the technique is given, with emphasis on quantitative measurements of quartz and calcite tempers. Several compositional groups based on raw materials and firing conditions emerge. While most ceram…
Projections from Actuality
Projected Actuality
Journal Article PROJECTED ACTUALITY Get access Quentin Williams Quentin Williams 10 Nevil Road, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 9EQ, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 35, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 273–277, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/35.3.273 Published: 01 July 1995
Infra-red Spectroscopy of Ceramics from Tell Brak, Syria
Investigation of Islamic ceramics from Tell Tuneinir using X‐ray diffraction
In this study, X‐ray diffraction (XRD) is applied to select ceramics, particularly dating to the Ayyoubid (A.D. 1174–1250) period from Tell Tuneinir in Syria. Because XRD has not been commonly applied to archaeological ceramics, a thorough background of the technique is given, with emphasis on quantitative measurements of quartz and calcite tempers. Several compositional groups based on raw materials and firing conditions emerge. While most ceram…
Multilingualism remixed: Sampling, braggadocio and the stylisation of local voice
Among the many challenges posed by contexts of social transformation and extensive mobility is the question of how multilingual voice may carry across media, modalities and context. In this paper, we suggest that one approach to this complex problem may be to look at multilingual voice from a sociolinguistic perspective of performance. Our focus here is thus on how marginalised voices on the periphery of Cape Town become mainstreamed within the c…
Multilingualism Remixed: Sampling, Braggadocio and the Stylisation of Local Voice
Among the many challenges posed by contexts of social transformation and extensive mobility is the question of how multilingual voice may carry across media, modalities and context. In this article, we suggest that one approach to this complex problem may be to look at multilingual voice from a sociolinguistic perspective of performance. Our focus here is thus on how marginalised voices on the periphery of Cape Town become mainstreamed within the…
Multilingualism as utopia: Fashioning non-racial selves
The challenge of contemporary South Africa is that of building a (post)nation of postracial equity in a fragmented world of a globalized ethical, economic and ecological meltdown. In this paper, we seek to explore the idea of multilingualism as a technology in the conceptualization of alternative, competing futures. We suggest that multilingualism is understood in terms of how encounters across difference are mediated and structured linguisticall…
Changing tastes on the linguistic landscape of Asmara, Eritrea
Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, has for the longest time had a clear demarcation between Christian and Muslim eateries, with Arabic as the differentiating marker between the two. With the in?ux of Sudanese Muslim tourists, however, a number of Christian eateries in downtown Asmara have begun including Arabic on their signage. We approach the changes to the LL in two ways: (i) through a geosemiotic analysis of selected mixed signs on and arou…
Lusophone Hip-Hop: Who We Are’ and ‘Where We Are’: Identity, Urban Culture and Belonging, edited by Rosana Martins and Massimo Canevacci
Since its inception, Hip Hop culture has rapidly grown, redefining the nature of popular culture and music. The culture’s spread to locations far and wide across the globe has given young people, d
Multilingual Margins
In this article I explore the relationship between language, education and community.Based on the concepts of linguistic citizenship and funds of knowledge, I analyse education for citizenship in Mozambique, specifically the empowerment of communities and their knowledge in bilingual education as one of the impacts of the ideological and political orientations that govern the recent educational reform in Mozambique.Combining Linguistic Ethnograph…
Fitting in: Stylizing and (re)negotiating Congolese youth identity and multilingualism in Cape Town
Into Collabs: Public Applied Linguistics and Hip Hop Language Technicians
In this article, I propose the idea of public applied linguistics: that is, a type of applied linguistics that sees applied linguists doing the work of activism, with language activists, in the public, are (i) invested in the artistic representation of linkages between language reinvention and new relationalities, and (ii) highlighting, documenting and framing interventionist debates around language. Public applied linguists encounter, discourse …
Public Applied Linguistics in Action: A Conversation Between Emile YX? Jansen and Quentin Williams on Hip Hop Culture & Activism, Afrikaaps, Indigeneity, and Decolonial Futures
Emile YX? & Quentin Williams: We are two activists working towards the same goal, with slightly different tools of description and analysis. Emile YX?: I bring Hip Hop culture, Knowledge of Self and Education are my tools. For me biography, a definition of activism and an understanding of the importance of language, indigeneity. and what our futures will look like as marginalized speakers are important. Quentin Williams: Aweh (that’s real). I lik…
Back inside cover
Towards a sociolinguistics of in difference: Stancetaking on others
This paper proposes a sociolinguistics of in difference , an inquiry-based approach to stancetaking on others. It describes how multilingual speakers in an online context orientate towards a stance-object and affiliate, align and negotiate difference through embodied performances, as part of advancing an ethics of responsibility for the other and aesthetic investments. In the analysis of such orientations, I draw on virtual interactional data to …
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