Zhu Hua
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhu Hua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhu |
| FAMILY NAME | Hua |
| SIGNATURE | HUA Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1500-3047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 431 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Intercultural harmony as a conceptual lens on disagreement in multilingual family talk
This study introduces intercultural harmony as a conceptual lens for understanding intergenerational interaction in multilingual families. Rather than treating harmony as the avoidance of conflict, we conceptualize intercultural harmony as an interactional principle and achievement through which linguistic, cultural, and epistemic differences are collaboratively managed in intergenerational family talk. Drawing on an interactional sociolinguistic…
How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites
Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database comprising 10,535 words and analysed it within the framework of corpus‐assisted discourse analysis. Four theme…
Enacting cultural distinctiveness and diasporic identity in semiotic landscapes: A material ethnography of Chinese restaurants in the UK
This paper explores diasporic identities enacted in the semiotic landscapes of Chinese restaurants. Informed by a materialist theory of signs and space, it presents an ethnography of three independent Chinese restaurants in Liverpool, UK. Geosemiotic analysis reveals that the three restaurants take three different approaches to the semiotic enactment of Chinese food(space): nominal display of Chineseness as family heritage, flexible assemblage of…
Scaling silence: Discursive distancing in the linguistic landscape of London Chinatown during Covid-19
This article employs a multi-scalar approach to examine silences in the linguistic landscape of London Chinatown during Covid-19. Defining silence paradigmatically, it explores the relative absence of pandemic signage, in contrast to their proliferation in other urban spaces. A total of 462 pandemic signs were photographed during four field trips to Chinatown, complemented with observations of its online linguistic landscape as represented in soc…
Translanguaging in performance or performance in translanguaging
This article approaches translanguaging from the perspective of performance as theorised in anthropological and sociological studies. Drawing on the key argument that every facet of social reality is a performance, and social interaction is based on tacit agreement among all the participants, the article aims to make sense of a key participant’s making sense of her social world, based on an ethnographic investigation into the work and life of a m…
Exploring AI for intercultural communication: Open conversation
AI is not new. What is new, however, is the speed and depth of its expansion in almost every aspect of our lives. This discussion forum is dedicated to exploring new frontiers and agendas for language and intercultural communication research. In this concluding piece, we invite the contributors to share insights on five key questions: their experiences (Question 1), the challenges and opportunities that we face (Question 2), the strengths and ski…
Affective geographies and tribal epistemologies: Studying abroad during Covid-19
This paper explores the relationship between epistemologies, tribalism and affect in the experiences of Chinese international students studying in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on data from student diaries, interviews, and focus groups, it explores how boundaries between in-groups and out-groups were erected and dismantled through processes of socio-temporal scaling, whereby social actors configured affective geographies by linking…
When AI meets intercultural communication: New frontiers, new agendas
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in the spotlight again.Earlier this year there was a widespread controversy over how Gemini, Google's Gen AI model, generated images of German Second World War soldiers as people of colour.Google swiftly suspended Gemini's image generation function and its chief executive Sundar Pichai, apologized for Gemini's "completely unacceptable" conduct (The Guardian 2024).This is not the first time that AI, or more specific…
Who is our friend and who is our enemy? The enregisterment of tribalising digital discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study demonstrates how tribalism and nationalism, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have given rise to the enregisterment of a cultural discursive practice – dui (怼) – on Chinese social media. Based on a sample of social media posts collected through a combination of ‘noticing’ and systematic data scanning and archiving over a month, our analysis shows that dui shifted from a discursive practice of friendly teasing, a specific function t…
Teacher resilience and triple crises: Confucius Institute teachers’ lived experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article aims to investigate Confucius Institute teachers’ lived intercultural experiences during the triple crises, i.e., the pandemic, hostility towards Confucius Institutes (CIs) and rampant racism. Through the analytical lens of teacher resilience, the article looks beyond what has gone wrong and foregrounds resourcefulness, strength, and agency of CI teachers. It draws the data from interviews with nine CI teachers based in US, Europe an…
The myth of cultural fit in recruitment job interviews
This article aims to examine the complex linguistic and cultural dynamics of recruitment interviews where recruiters played multiple roles of gatekeepers and facilitators by unpacking how “cultural fit” is co‐constructed in recruitment interviews. Drawing on ethnographic data collected from one of the world's largest recruitment agencies, we explore how power dynamics manifest in “friendly” rapport‐building interview conversations between interlo…
Developing standardized speech and language assessment tools in Mandarin Chinese: A context for improving reading and writing
Discussion to improve reading/writing competences of all students too often assumes ‘normal’ language development, hence it easily omits consideration of language disability and overlooks significant groups of learners – in China, potentially 70 million children and adults with speech and language therapy needs. However, little information is available about practices for language assessments in Chinese and about how language assessment tools are…
Pride, prejudice and pragmatism: Family language policies in the UK
In this study, we examine how mobility and on-going changes in sociocultural contexts impact family language policy (FLP) in the UK. Using a questionnaire and involving 470 transnational families across the UK, our study provides a descriptive analysis of different family language practices in England and establishes how attitudes influence the different types of FLP in these families. Complementing the descriptive analysis, we use interview data…
Tomorrow? Jayaji ! (자야지): Translation as translanguaging in interviews with the Director of Parasite
Translanguaging refers to the dynamic meaning-making process whereby multilingual language users make full use of their communicative repertoires by crossing the boundaries between named languages and other semiotic and modal resources ( García and Li 2014 ). Director Bong Joon-ho is well-known for utilising such border-crossing practices in his films, specifically, for his strategic and creative use of multiple languages and translation. He also…
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: An epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research
In this article, we reflect on the epistemological frameworks and priorities of intercultural communication research regarding ‘cultural differences’. With the current challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the growing political and social polarisation in recent years, we argue for a need to (re)focus attention to the ways acts of distinction (i. e., the explicit marking and accentuating of cultural differences) function in everyday…
Conversation for co-learning in the eikaiwa classroom
This paper discusses how the concept of co-learning and the pedagogy of vulnerability (Brantmeier, 2013) can explain shifts in participation in a language classroom. Its empirical evidence is from our investigation of interactions in an eikaiwa (English conversation) classroom in Japan where small groups of Japanese learners of English are encouraged to converse with a language teacher. Using multimodal Conversation Analysis, we found that the pa…
Claire Kramsch in conversation with Zhu Hua
The following conversation between Zhu Hua (ZH) and Claire Kramsch (CK) was conducted on 27 October 2020 at a webinar organized by Rebecca Taylor and Rachel Tonkin from Cambridge University Press on the occasion of the impending publication of Claire's book Language as Symbolic Power and in the shadow of the imminent presidential American election. What follows are extracts from the conversation in which we have incorporated some of the questions…
Effects associated with long-term training in sports requiring high levels of strategy on brain white matter structure in expert players: A DTI study
摘要
Language, culture and curriculum: Lived intercultural experience of international students
We start this coda with a discussion of the impact of the pandemic on higher education in our contexts. We then highlight the focus of this special issue, namely international students’ language learning and intercultural encounters in Chinese universities. Reflecting on the relevant findings reported in this collection of studies, we relate individual studies to the critical issues of language, culture and curriculum, which underpin the core of …
Experiencing Chinese education: Learning of language and culture by international students in Chinese universities
In this editorial introduction we present what motivated us to organise this collection of studies on international students in the Chinese context. As a follow-up to the 2006 special issue entitled ‘The Chinese Learner in Higher Education’ in this journal, this collection of studies problematise the domination of studies on international students in English medium universities, and extends our understanding of cross-border students’ experiences …
The promise and resilience of multilingualism: Language ideologies and practices of Polish-speaking migrants in the UK post the Brexit vote
This article aims to examine how sociopolitical changes impact language ideology and linguistic practices within transnational multilingual families with a particular focus on families with ties to Poland in post-EU-referendum Britain. Drawing on the survey and ethnographic interview data collected as part of the ESRC-funded Family Language Policy project between 2017 and 2019, we found that the public attitude towards Polish and Polish speakers …
Connecting Polish families in Europe: Changing dynamics in language and communication practices
nonPeerReviewed
Dobra polska mowa: Monoglot ideology, multilingual reality and Polish organisations in the UK
This article examines the tension between multilingual reality of migrant life and monoglot standard ideology in Polish grassroots organisations in the UK. Drawing on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork from 2017 to 2019, we show that while flexible multilingual practices characterise the community's multilingual reality, a preference for monolingual standard Polish exists in community activities and online profiles. We argue that, through common o…
Introduction: The changing faces of transnational communities in Britain
In this editorial introduction, we outline the key conceptualisations and overarching questions of this collection of studies on the changing faces of the transnational communities in Britain. Using the nexus of migration and language as our critical lens, we examine the internal diversities within the transnational communities in Britain, evident in the emergence of groups differing on migration trajectories, social and educational backgrounds, …
Soft power struggles: A diasporic perspective on the competing ideologies and innovative practices regarding the Chinese writing system
This critical essay aims to assess the linguistic ideologies regarding the Chinese writing system by locating them in historical and diasporic contexts and the new digital communication space. Drawing data from a long-term and ongoing digital ethnography of online communication and creative Sinographs in the global Chinese diaspora, it analyses how multilingual Chinese language users manipulate the affordances of the writing system in combination…
Translanguaging Identities and Ideologies: Creating Transnational Space Through Flexible Multilingual Practices Amongst Chinese University Students in the UK
There are thousands of ethnic Chinese students from different backgrounds in British universities today, a fact that has not been fully appreciated or studied from an applied linguistics perspective. For example, there are third- or fourth-generation British-born Chinese; there are students from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore who have received whole or part of their primary and secondary education in Britain; and there are Chinese student…
Transnational experience, aspiration and family language policy
Transnational and multilingual families have become commonplace in the twenty-first century. Yet relatively few attempts have been made from applied and socio-linguistic perspectives to understand what is going on within such families; how their transnational and multilingual experiences impact on the family dynamics and their everyday life; how they cope with the new and ever-changing environment, and how they construct their identities and buil…
Duelling Languages, Duelling Values: Codeswitching in bilingual intergenerational conflict talk in diasporic families
Polish shop(ping) as Translanguaging Space
This article investigates how spatial layout, the display of goods, body movement and gaze work alongside verbalised linguistic codes in creating a Translanguaging Space, using data from a linguistic ethnography project in a family retail shop in East London. We argue that while positioning itself as a “Polski Sklep” (Polish shop) in London, the shop is a Translanguaging Space – a space created by Translanguaging practices and for Translanguaging…
The sequential organisation of gift offering and acceptance in Chinese
Tranßcripting: Playful subversion with Chinese characters
This article discusses a relatively under-explored phenomenon that we call Tranßcripting – writing, designing and digitally generating new scripts with elements from different scriptal and semiotic systems. The data are drawn from examples of such scripts created by multilingual Chinese users in everyday online social interaction. We analyse the dynamic processes of how such scripts are created that transcend language boundaries as well as transf…
Multilingual, multisensory and multimodal repertoires in corner shops, streets and markets: Introduction
The research described in the papers in this special issue is situated in a diversity of contexts: a street market and small shops in Mumbai, a subway in Cape Town, a greengrocer in Copenhagen, Ban
Language socialization and interculturality: Address terms in intergenerational talk in Chinese diasporic families
This paper aims to contribute to the current debate on ‘interculturality’ (IC) by investigating the process of language socialization whereby different generations of diasporic families negotiate, construct, and renew their sociocultural values and identities through interaction. Focusing on the use of address terms and ‘talk about social, cultural, and linguistic practice,’ the paper argues that IC is not only a dynamic process through which par…
Experiencing Chinese education: Learning of language and culture by international students in Chinese universities
In this editorial introduction we present what motivated us to organise this collection of studies on international students in the Chinese context. As a follow-up to the 2006 special issue entitled ‘The Chinese Learner in Higher Education’ in this journal, this collection of studies problematise the domination of studies on international students in English medium universities, and extends our understanding of cross-border students’ experiences …
Translanguaging and embodied teaching and learning: Lessons from a multilingual karate club in London
The purpose of this article is to explore the role of embodied repertories in teaching and learning in a multi-ethnic karate club in East London and its implications for language teaching and learning. We do so through the lens of translanguaging and apply the concept of translanguaging space where diverse semiotic systems are integrated and orchestrated. Through a close examination of how teaching and learning takes place in the karate club, we …
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: An epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research
In this article, we reflect on the epistemological frameworks and priorities of intercultural communication research regarding ‘cultural differences’. With the current challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the growing political and social polarisation in recent years, we argue for a need to (re)focus attention to the ways acts of distinction (i. e., the explicit marking and accentuating of cultural differences) function in everyday…
Pride, prejudice and pragmatism: Family language policies in the UK
In this study, we examine how mobility and on-going changes in sociocultural contexts impact family language policy (FLP) in the UK. Using a questionnaire and involving 470 transnational families across the UK, our study provides a descriptive analysis of different family language practices in England and establishes how attitudes influence the different types of FLP in these families. Complementing the descriptive analysis, we use interview data…
Language, culture and curriculum: Lived intercultural experience of international students
We start this coda with a discussion of the impact of the pandemic on higher education in our contexts. We then highlight the focus of this special issue, namely international students’ language learning and intercultural encounters in Chinese universities. Reflecting on the relevant findings reported in this collection of studies, we relate individual studies to the critical issues of language, culture and curriculum, which underpin the core of …
Voices from the diaspora: Changing hierarchies and dynamics of Chinese multilingualism
The so-called Chinese diasporas, i.e. Chinese communities outside Greater China (China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan), have traditionally been dialect dominant; that is, the vast majority of Chinese immigrants are speakers of (especially Southern) dialects. Cantonese and Hokkien are two of the most prominent dialects. With globalization and the rise of China as a world politico-economic power, the national, standardized variety, Putonghua, is gai…
Making a stance: Social action for language and intercultural communication research
The idea of research as social action is not new. It has been embraced in some fields (such as social psychology, Price & Cherniss, 1977) for several decades. However, it has been rarely explicitly
The promise and resilience of multilingualism: Language ideologies and practices of Polish-speaking migrants in the UK post the Brexit vote
This article aims to examine how sociopolitical changes impact language ideology and linguistic practices within transnational multilingual families with a particular focus on families with ties to Poland in post-EU-referendum Britain. Drawing on the survey and ethnographic interview data collected as part of the ESRC-funded Family Language Policy project between 2017 and 2019, we found that the public attitude towards Polish and Polish speakers …
Soft power struggles: A diasporic perspective on the competing ideologies and innovative practices regarding the Chinese writing system
This critical essay aims to assess the linguistic ideologies regarding the Chinese writing system by locating them in historical and diasporic contexts and the new digital communication space. Drawing data from a long-term and ongoing digital ethnography of online communication and creative Sinographs in the global Chinese diaspora, it analyses how multilingual Chinese language users manipulate the affordances of the writing system in combination…
Translanguaging in performance or performance in translanguaging
This article approaches translanguaging from the perspective of performance as theorised in anthropological and sociological studies. Drawing on the key argument that every facet of social reality is a performance, and social interaction is based on tacit agreement among all the participants, the article aims to make sense of a key participant’s making sense of her social world, based on an ethnographic investigation into the work and life of a m…
Connecting Polish families in Europe: Changing dynamics in language and communication practices
nonPeerReviewed
Making sense of handwritten signs in public spaces
This article is an ethnography of an investigation of an under-explored sociolinguistic phenomenon, namely handwritten signs in public spaces, against a context of urban regeneration and socio-cultural transformation. These signs are a subset of urban communicates that involve handwriting, lettering or the painting of letters and text using different materials and serving different functions. We focus primarily on handwritten signs on paper or ca…
Imagination as a key factor in LMLS in transnational families
This article argues that imagination plays a key role in whether and how members of transnational families individually and collectively maintain or relinquish their heritage languages and adopt other languages as part of their multilingual repertoires. Imagination is defined here as the vision of where and what one might be or become at some future point in time. We base our argument on linguistic ethnography over two decades with transnational …
Piecing together the ‘workplace multilingualism’ jigsaw puzzle
Why multilingualism in the workplace, and why now?Once upon a time people used to associate multilingualism in the workplace with two typical scenarios: large multinational corporations where geographically mobile, urban-oriented, highly skilled and elite professionals and managerial staff worked across national boundaries and operated in and out of different languages, or some seedy sweat factory where socially insecure, often uneducated, low-pa…
Children's perceptions of the impact of participation in an intercultural educational programme
This paper examines the self-perceptions of sixteen 11-year-old UK children who took part in intercultural ‘Villages’ organised by an international children's charity. The analysis of the data shows that only a short-term increase in Intercultural Communicative Competence was reported by the children immediately after the Village. The increase was neither statistically significant, nor evident nine months after the Village. However, the analysis …
Interpersonal harmony and textual coherence in Chinese business interaction
This paper focuses on the key Chinese cultural concept of ‘harmony ’ and investigates how Chinese speakers endeavour to achieve interpersonal harmony in face-to-face interaction. The data on which this study is based comes from a business meeting amongst four native speakers of Mandarin Chinese in Beijing. Through a detailed Conversation Analysis of a sequence from the closing stage of the meeting, we demonstrate the ways in which the Chinese spe…
Conversation for co-learning in the eikaiwa classroom
This paper discusses how the concept of co-learning and the pedagogy of vulnerability (Brantmeier, 2013) can explain shifts in participation in a language classroom. Its empirical evidence is from our investigation of interactions in an eikaiwa (English conversation) classroom in Japan where small groups of Japanese learners of English are encouraged to converse with a language teacher. Using multimodal Conversation Analysis, we found that the pa…
Second Lunguuge Vocabulary Acquisition
Stylistic variations in the early lexical development of young Putonghua-speaking children
Earlier studies of children's lexical acquisition tended to focus either on the rate or the style of acquisition. More recently, researchers have moved their attention to the individual differences in the stylistic variations in children's lexical composition. Most of the studies of children's lexical development in languages other than English, however, have only copied earlier studies of English-speaking children. There is very little published…
The phonological acquisition of Putonghua (Modern Standard Chinese)
The phonological acquisition of 129 monolingual Putonghua-speaking children, aged 1;6 to 4;6, is described. Putonghua (Modern Standard Chinese) syllables have four possible elements: tone, syllable-initial consonant, vowel, and syllable-final consonant. The children's errors suggested that Putonghua-speaking children mastered these elements in the following order: tones were acquired first; then syllable-final consonants and vowels; and syllable-…
The sequential organisation of gift offering and acceptance in Chinese
Phonological development of a Putonghua-speaking child with prelingual hearing impairment: A longitudinal case study
The phonological ability and development of a Putonghua-speaking child with severe prelingual hearing impairment between the age of 3;5 and 4;5 was described using the measures of MLU, MLVV, MaxLU, TTR, PCE, inconsistency rating, phonological processes, and phonetic and phonemic inventory. Comparison of the developmental patterns identified in the child and that of children speaking English and Cantonese revealed both cross-linguistic similaritie…
Conversational Management and Involvement in Chinese-English Business Talk
Culturally-based differences in conversational style often result in miscommunication in intercultural transactions. Such miscommunication becomes more acute in professional contexts (e.g. business negotiations) when the interacting parties are using the same linguistic code but not the same cultural style. Using the analytic framework provided by Conversation Analysis (CA), this paper examines one sequence of interaction during the closing stage…
Interpersonal harmony and textual coherence in Chinese business interaction
This paper focuses on the key Chinese cultural concept of ‘harmony ’ and investigates how Chinese speakers endeavour to achieve interpersonal harmony in face-to-face interaction. The data on which this study is based comes from a business meeting amongst four native speakers of Mandarin Chinese in Beijing. Through a detailed Conversation Analysis of a sequence from the closing stage of the meeting, we demonstrate the ways in which the Chinese spe…
Duelling Languages, Duelling Values: Codeswitching in bilingual intergenerational conflict talk in diasporic families
The phonological development of a trilingual child: Facts and factors
This article investigates the early phonological development of a trilingual child who is acquiring Spanish, Mandarin and Taiwanese simultaneously. By examining the natural speech data recorded between the age of 1;3 and 2;0, the article reports the age of emergence and stabilization of the vowels and consonants, speech accuracy and phonological error patterns in each language. The data show that by the age of two the child is able to produce mos…
Language socialization and interculturality: Address terms in intergenerational talk in Chinese diasporic families
This paper aims to contribute to the current debate on ‘interculturality’ (IC) by investigating the process of language socialization whereby different generations of diasporic families negotiate, construct, and renew their sociocultural values and identities through interaction. Focusing on the use of address terms and ‘talk about social, cultural, and linguistic practice,’ the paper argues that IC is not only a dynamic process through which par…
Voices from the diaspora: Changing hierarchies and dynamics of Chinese multilingualism
The so-called Chinese diasporas, i.e. Chinese communities outside Greater China (China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan), have traditionally been dialect dominant; that is, the vast majority of Chinese immigrants are speakers of (especially Southern) dialects. Cantonese and Hokkien are two of the most prominent dialects. With globalization and the rise of China as a world politico-economic power, the national, standardized variety, Putonghua, is gai…
Children's perceptions of the impact of participation in an intercultural educational programme
This paper examines the self-perceptions of sixteen 11-year-old UK children who took part in intercultural ‘Villages’ organised by an international children's charity. The analysis of the data shows that only a short-term increase in Intercultural Communicative Competence was reported by the children immediately after the Village. The increase was neither statistically significant, nor evident nine months after the Village. However, the analysis …
Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children
This is an introduction of a special issue by the internaitonal journal of Chinese Language and Discourse, in which an overview is presented to discuss recent development of research on Chinese speaking children in the aspects of pragmatic and grammatical functions, picture story book comprehension, mother and child interaction and the impact of mother's education background on communication competence of child.
An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis of Word-Initial Stop Production by Young Simultaneous Mandarin- English Bilingual Children
(2012). An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis of Word-Initial Stop Production by Young Simultaneous Mandarin- English Bilingual Children. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 73-84
Communicating in a Lingua Franca: Children’s Interaction in an International Summer Camp
The aim of this paper is to investigate how children negotiate their language and social roles using English as a lingua franca in an international summer camp. Through detailed analysis of interactions in a group activity, it is found that the children employ a range of linguistic and interactional resources, in particular, language alternation, clarification and repair, and shadowing, to negotiate and manage their participation, despite dispari…
Diaspora: Multilingual and intercultural communication across time and space
The nature of diaspora is changing in the 21st century. Yet many of the communication issues remain the same. At the heart of it is multilingual and intercultural communication across time and space. There is much that applied linguists can contribute to the understanding of diaspora in the era of globalization. This article discusses some of the core issues of communication between the diaspora and the homeland, the past and the present, the ind…
Translanguaging Identities and Ideologies: Creating Transnational Space Through Flexible Multilingual Practices Amongst Chinese University Students in the UK
There are thousands of ethnic Chinese students from different backgrounds in British universities today, a fact that has not been fully appreciated or studied from an applied linguistics perspective. For example, there are third- or fourth-generation British-born Chinese; there are students from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore who have received whole or part of their primary and secondary education in Britain; and there are Chinese student…
Piecing together the ‘workplace multilingualism’ jigsaw puzzle
Why multilingualism in the workplace, and why now?Once upon a time people used to associate multilingualism in the workplace with two typical scenarios: large multinational corporations where geographically mobile, urban-oriented, highly skilled and elite professionals and managerial staff worked across national boundaries and operated in and out of different languages, or some seedy sweat factory where socially insecure, often uneducated, low-pa…
“Where are you really from?”: Nationality and Ethnicity Talk (NET) in everyday interactions
The article examines the significance of questions such as “where are you really from?” in everyday conversational interactions. Defining this kind of talk as nationality and ethnicity talk (NET), i. e. discourse that either explicitly or inexplicitly evokes one’s nationality or ethnicity in everyday conversation, the paper discusses what constitutes NET, how it works through symbolic and indexical cues and strategic emphasis, and why it matters …
Symbolic power and conversational inequality in intercultural communication: An Introduction
Transnational experience, aspiration and family language policy
Transnational and multilingual families have become commonplace in the twenty-first century. Yet relatively few attempts have been made from applied and socio-linguistic perspectives to understand what is going on within such families; how their transnational and multilingual experiences impact on the family dynamics and their everyday life; how they cope with the new and ever-changing environment, and how they construct their identities and buil…
New orientations to identities in mobility
This chapter reviews the main pursuits and contributions among studies on identities in mobility. It addresses contemporary and seminal works carried out in the broad disciplinary area of applied linguistics and several other related areas such as anthropology, cultural studies, and international education. The chapter focuses on three inter-related themes: complexity, doing/becoming identities, and intersectionality. It refers to those on the mo…
Polish shop(ping) as Translanguaging Space
This article investigates how spatial layout, the display of goods, body movement and gaze work alongside verbalised linguistic codes in creating a Translanguaging Space, using data from a linguistic ethnography project in a family retail shop in East London. We argue that while positioning itself as a “Polski Sklep” (Polish shop) in London, the shop is a Translanguaging Space – a space created by Translanguaging practices and for Translanguaging…
Multilingual, multisensory and multimodal repertoires in corner shops, streets and markets: Introduction
The research described in the papers in this special issue is situated in a diversity of contexts: a street market and small shops in Mumbai, a subway in Cape Town, a greengrocer in Copenhagen, Ban
Framing interculturality: A corpus-based analysis of online promotional discourse of higher education intercultural communication courses
This paper examines how intercultural communication (ICC) and the notion of culture are framed in on-line promotional discourse of higher education (HE) ICC courses. It analyses a specialised corpus comprised of 14,842 words from 43 course websites of master's programmes in ICC in the UK and the US – internationally, the two largest providers of such programmes. Through combining corpus tools with a ‘situated meaning’ approach, the analysis revea…
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