Mike Baynham
Biographic Data
| ID | 737599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Baynham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Baynham |
| SIGNATURE | BAYNHAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6259-7936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Living a storied life: An interview with Mike Baynham
Mike Baynham is Emeritus Professor of TESOL at the University of Leeds, a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and former Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). He was a Visiting Professor at York St John University (2020–2023) and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney (2019–2022). His recent publications include: Narrating Migrations from Africa and the Middle East: A Spatio-Temporal Approach (with R. Br…
Where the personal is political
The Queer Asylum Stories project collected interviews with people who had successfully gained asylum based on their sexuality. The focus of this article is on life stories leading up to and triggering the decision to seek asylum, and the processes of formation of the interviewees’ queer subjectivity. The discussion draws on the three related constructs of interpellation, ideological becoming and habitus, and considers the role of queer activism, …
From Events to Assemblages: Transborder Literacies in an Embordered World
This paper recalls the shift, starting in the 1980s, from seeing literacy as a mental process to understanding it as constitutive of the social world, researchable through an ethnographic approach, focussed on situated texts, practices and events. How we had to re-think the study of literacy since then? Two changes have challenged literacy researchers: firstly the proliferation of on-line and social media and the consequent re-organization of wor…
Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries
The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.
Portuguese Ao Pé Do Berimbau: On Capoeira as an Additional Language
From its historical origins as a resistant and violently repressed bundle of music, dance and martial arts practices of the African diaspora in Brazil, capoeira has travelled, becoming a global phenomenon with groups and networks in diverse sites around the world, including London, Cape Town and Hong Kong and indeed Leeds where this research was based. We focus on the linguistic, cultural and embodied ensemble of capoeira, researching a capoeira …
Translation and Translanguaging
Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice. This book is the first to ask: what can translanguaging tell us about translation and what can translation tell us about translanguaging? Translanguaging originated as a term to characterize bilingual and multilingual repertoires. This book extends the linguistic focus to consider translanguaging and translation in ta…
Literacy in the study of social change: Lusophone perspectives
Jonathan Clifton & Dorien Van De Mieroop, Master narratives, identities, and the stories of former slaves. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. viii, 229. Hb €95
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Intersections of necessity and desire in migration research
This chapter discusses the spatial twists and turns of mobility and the intersecting role of necessity and desire in migration choices. The chapter argues that, while necessity and desire always interact intersectionally, the role of desire, particularly perhaps same-sex desire, in migration research is often the excluded or silenced other. It provides some examples of characteristic domains, spaces, and encounters of migration. The chapter consi…
On the relationality of centers, peripheries and interactional regimes: Translanguaging in a community interpreting event
In this paper we discuss a multilingual interactional event that involves both interpreting and literacy work, part of a large scale study on translanguaging in superdiverse urban settings. 1 In the first part of the interaction, the center/periphery dynamic is played out in what might be called “contested translanguaging” between Standard Czech and a Slovak influenced dialect of Czech, in the second part in contested translanguaging between Stan…
Grit Liebscher & Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain, Language, space, and identity in migration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. viii, 288. Hb. $95
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Immigrant Discourse
Before introducing the topic of this entry, it needs to be clarifi ed that the term discourse is employed here to refer to language in use as organized and culturally shaped ways of talking embedded in concrete social practices (see Gee, 1996, p. 131, on this point).
Sociolinguistic Studies of Literacy
The connection between sociolinguistics and literacy studies is not as obvious as it might seem. Introductory textbooks in sociolinguistics tend not to mention literacy in their indexes, while books on literacy do not typically list sociolinguistics in theirs. Sociolinguistics of different sorts has, however, been a significant influence in the development of literacy studies, as this entry will show. To understand how, it is important to disting…
Negotiation of Identities across Times and Spaces
In preparing this chapter I found myself asking how I became interested in its topic. The answer lies in a series of seminars on narrative in which I was involved in the early 2000s, whose focus might loosely be called explorations in post-Labovian narrative theory. One seminar, with a focus on identity, shaped some of the contributions to the volume Discourse and Identity (De Fina, Schiffrin and Bamberg, 2006). Another seminar, on the topic of n…
Stance, positioning, and alignment in narratives of professional experience
This article examines narratives of professional experience in a corpus of forty interviews in which English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers reflect on their professional life histories as well as their current teaching. The notion of "stance" emerged as a major theme: the teachers positioned themselves in relation to the policy environment, to learners, teaching and learning, and their sense of control in their working lives. Narr…
Alexandra Georgakopoulou: Small Stories, Interaction and Identities.
Labov and Waletzky’s (1967) model of narrative, along with its subsequent reformulation in Labov (1972) and the less frequently cited Labov and Fanshel (1977), is arguably one of the best known constructs in discourse analysis, having influenced subsequent generations of scholars within linguistics and beyond, becoming in effect what Latour (1987) has termed a ‘black box’, widely accepted and used, sometimes uncritically, for a whole range of ana…
Onwards and Upwards: Space, Placement, and Liminality in Adult Esol Classes
The extensive literature on classroom‐based second language learning makes little attempt to situate the classroom itself in social and multilingual sociolinguistic space, in the complex and iterative networks of encounters and interactions that make up daily life. Daily life is routinely evoked and “brought into” the classroom as a pedagogic and testing strategy, but how can we understand the classroom as just one of the sites in which daily lif…
Globalization and language in contact: Scale, Migration, and Communicative Practices
Space, scale and accents: constructing migrant identity in Beijing / J.K. Dong & J. Blommaert -- Goffman and globalisation: frame, footing and scale in migration-connected multilingualism / J. Collins & S. Slembrouck -- The spaces of language: the everyday practices of Somali refugee and asylum seeker young people / G. Valentine, D. Sporton & K. Bang Nielsen -- Immigration in Catalonia: marking territory through language / J. Pujolar -- Either an…
Language and Migration Research Network
J.R. Martin and Ruth Wodak: Re/Reading the Past: Critical and Functional Perspectives on Time and Value. John Benjamins, 2003.
The last fifteen years has seen a proliferation of studies and the emergence of a promising field of research in what could be called disciplinary discourse studies or the study of discourse and disciplinarity, using a range of more or less linguistic theoretical tools (register analysis, genre analysis, various varieties of discourse analysis, socio-cultural theory, social semiotics, and, more recently, multimodality). Such studies have engaged …
Contingency and Agency in Adult Esol Classes for Asylum Seekers
It is an early summer evening, and an ESOL teacher is called in from the garden to the phone. It is one of her students, an asylum seeker housed with her family on a white, working-class housing estate in an inner city area. She is cowering under the table with her 6-year-old son while her racist neighbours are bombarding her house with various objects because they have discovered she and her family are asylum seekers. Their next door neighbours,…
Narratives in space and time: Beyond “backdrop” accounts of narrative orientation
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Direct speech: What's it doing in non-narrative discourse
Narratives in space and time: Beyond “backdrop” accounts of narrative orientation
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Direct speech: What's it doing in non-narrative discourse
Stance, positioning, and alignment in narratives of professional experience
This article examines narratives of professional experience in a corpus of forty interviews in which English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers reflect on their professional life histories as well as their current teaching. The notion of "stance" emerged as a major theme: the teachers positioned themselves in relation to the policy environment, to learners, teaching and learning, and their sense of control in their working lives. Narr…
Onwards and Upwards: Space, Placement, and Liminality in Adult Esol Classes
The extensive literature on classroom‐based second language learning makes little attempt to situate the classroom itself in social and multilingual sociolinguistic space, in the complex and iterative networks of encounters and interactions that make up daily life. Daily life is routinely evoked and “brought into” the classroom as a pedagogic and testing strategy, but how can we understand the classroom as just one of the sites in which daily lif…
Where the personal is political
The Queer Asylum Stories project collected interviews with people who had successfully gained asylum based on their sexuality. The focus of this article is on life stories leading up to and triggering the decision to seek asylum, and the processes of formation of the interviewees’ queer subjectivity. The discussion draws on the three related constructs of interpellation, ideological becoming and habitus, and considers the role of queer activism, …
Contingency and Agency in Adult Esol Classes for Asylum Seekers
It is an early summer evening, and an ESOL teacher is called in from the garden to the phone. It is one of her students, an asylum seeker housed with her family on a white, working-class housing estate in an inner city area. She is cowering under the table with her 6-year-old son while her racist neighbours are bombarding her house with various objects because they have discovered she and her family are asylum seekers. Their next door neighbours,…
Direct speech: What's it doing in non-narrative discourse
Narratives in space and time: Beyond “backdrop” accounts of narrative orientation
Preview this article: Narratives in space and time: Beyond “backdrop” accounts of narrative orientation, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ni.13.2.07bay-1.gif
Contingency and Agency in Adult Esol Classes for Asylum Seekers
It is an early summer evening, and an ESOL teacher is called in from the garden to the phone. It is one of her students, an asylum seeker housed with her family on a white, working-class housing estate in an inner city area. She is cowering under the table with her 6-year-old son while her racist neighbours are bombarding her house with various objects because they have discovered she and her family are asylum seekers. Their next door neighbours,…
J.R. Martin and Ruth Wodak: Re/Reading the Past: Critical and Functional Perspectives on Time and Value. John Benjamins, 2003.
The last fifteen years has seen a proliferation of studies and the emergence of a promising field of research in what could be called disciplinary discourse studies or the study of discourse and disciplinarity, using a range of more or less linguistic theoretical tools (register analysis, genre analysis, various varieties of discourse analysis, socio-cultural theory, social semiotics, and, more recently, multimodality). Such studies have engaged …
Language and Migration Research Network
Globalization and language in contact: Scale, Migration, and Communicative Practices
Space, scale and accents: constructing migrant identity in Beijing / J.K. Dong & J. Blommaert -- Goffman and globalisation: frame, footing and scale in migration-connected multilingualism / J. Collins & S. Slembrouck -- The spaces of language: the everyday practices of Somali refugee and asylum seeker young people / G. Valentine, D. Sporton & K. Bang Nielsen -- Immigration in Catalonia: marking territory through language / J. Pujolar -- Either an…
Alexandra Georgakopoulou: Small Stories, Interaction and Identities.
Labov and Waletzky’s (1967) model of narrative, along with its subsequent reformulation in Labov (1972) and the less frequently cited Labov and Fanshel (1977), is arguably one of the best known constructs in discourse analysis, having influenced subsequent generations of scholars within linguistics and beyond, becoming in effect what Latour (1987) has termed a ‘black box’, widely accepted and used, sometimes uncritically, for a whole range of ana…
Onwards and Upwards: Space, Placement, and Liminality in Adult Esol Classes
The extensive literature on classroom‐based second language learning makes little attempt to situate the classroom itself in social and multilingual sociolinguistic space, in the complex and iterative networks of encounters and interactions that make up daily life. Daily life is routinely evoked and “brought into” the classroom as a pedagogic and testing strategy, but how can we understand the classroom as just one of the sites in which daily lif…
Stance, positioning, and alignment in narratives of professional experience
This article examines narratives of professional experience in a corpus of forty interviews in which English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers reflect on their professional life histories as well as their current teaching. The notion of "stance" emerged as a major theme: the teachers positioned themselves in relation to the policy environment, to learners, teaching and learning, and their sense of control in their working lives. Narr…
Immigrant Discourse
Before introducing the topic of this entry, it needs to be clarifi ed that the term discourse is employed here to refer to language in use as organized and culturally shaped ways of talking embedded in concrete social practices (see Gee, 1996, p. 131, on this point).
Sociolinguistic Studies of Literacy
The connection between sociolinguistics and literacy studies is not as obvious as it might seem. Introductory textbooks in sociolinguistics tend not to mention literacy in their indexes, while books on literacy do not typically list sociolinguistics in theirs. Sociolinguistics of different sorts has, however, been a significant influence in the development of literacy studies, as this entry will show. To understand how, it is important to disting…
Negotiation of Identities across Times and Spaces
In preparing this chapter I found myself asking how I became interested in its topic. The answer lies in a series of seminars on narrative in which I was involved in the early 2000s, whose focus might loosely be called explorations in post-Labovian narrative theory. One seminar, with a focus on identity, shaped some of the contributions to the volume Discourse and Identity (De Fina, Schiffrin and Bamberg, 2006). Another seminar, on the topic of n…
Grit Liebscher & Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain, Language, space, and identity in migration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. viii, 288. Hb. $95
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Intersections of necessity and desire in migration research
This chapter discusses the spatial twists and turns of mobility and the intersecting role of necessity and desire in migration choices. The chapter argues that, while necessity and desire always interact intersectionally, the role of desire, particularly perhaps same-sex desire, in migration research is often the excluded or silenced other. It provides some examples of characteristic domains, spaces, and encounters of migration. The chapter consi…
On the relationality of centers, peripheries and interactional regimes: Translanguaging in a community interpreting event
In this paper we discuss a multilingual interactional event that involves both interpreting and literacy work, part of a large scale study on translanguaging in superdiverse urban settings. 1 In the first part of the interaction, the center/periphery dynamic is played out in what might be called “contested translanguaging” between Standard Czech and a Slovak influenced dialect of Czech, in the second part in contested translanguaging between Stan…
Jonathan Clifton & Dorien Van De Mieroop, Master narratives, identities, and the stories of former slaves. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. viii, 229. Hb €95
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Translation and Translanguaging
Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice. This book is the first to ask: what can translanguaging tell us about translation and what can translation tell us about translanguaging? Translanguaging originated as a term to characterize bilingual and multilingual repertoires. This book extends the linguistic focus to consider translanguaging and translation in ta…
Literacy in the study of social change: Lusophone perspectives
Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries
The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.
Portuguese Ao Pé Do Berimbau: On Capoeira as an Additional Language
From its historical origins as a resistant and violently repressed bundle of music, dance and martial arts practices of the African diaspora in Brazil, capoeira has travelled, becoming a global phenomenon with groups and networks in diverse sites around the world, including London, Cape Town and Hong Kong and indeed Leeds where this research was based. We focus on the linguistic, cultural and embodied ensemble of capoeira, researching a capoeira …
Where the personal is political
The Queer Asylum Stories project collected interviews with people who had successfully gained asylum based on their sexuality. The focus of this article is on life stories leading up to and triggering the decision to seek asylum, and the processes of formation of the interviewees’ queer subjectivity. The discussion draws on the three related constructs of interpellation, ideological becoming and habitus, and considers the role of queer activism, …
From Events to Assemblages: Transborder Literacies in an Embordered World
This paper recalls the shift, starting in the 1980s, from seeing literacy as a mental process to understanding it as constitutive of the social world, researchable through an ethnographic approach, focussed on situated texts, practices and events. How we had to re-think the study of literacy since then? Two changes have challenged literacy researchers: firstly the proliferation of on-line and social media and the consequent re-organization of wor…
Living a storied life: An interview with Mike Baynham
Mike Baynham is Emeritus Professor of TESOL at the University of Leeds, a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and former Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). He was a Visiting Professor at York St John University (2020–2023) and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney (2019–2022). His recent publications include: Narrating Migrations from Africa and the Middle East: A Spatio-Temporal Approach (with R. Br…
Sociology (18 works) · Linguistics (16 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (15 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Art (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Narrative (6 works)