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Let’s shuffle: An epistemology of dance, disruption and decoloniality

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Ana Deumert

24/09/2018

5 minutes to read

Pluriversality is an important concept in decolonial theory. Ana Deumert uses the metaphor of the shuffle – an African-American vernacular dance step – to conceptualize pluriversal, or polyrhythmic, modes of thinking.

Dr. Sender Dovchin on translingualism and youth culture

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The Editors

18/10/2018

Is there a dark side to translingualism? Dr. Sender Dovchin believes the answer to that question is "yes". In this video, she talks about the research she did in the past, and the things she is working on at this moment.

Conspiracy theorising online

Article

Piia Varis

12/05/2018

11 minutes to read

Conspiracy theorising online is not only an interesting object of research in itself, says Piia Varis (Tilburg University) but as a phenomenon it also seems fruitful ground for understanding present-day media, culture, and politics more generally.

Professor Jan Blommaert on online identities and sociolinguistics

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The Editors

18/10/2018

Professor Jan Blommaert on online identities and sociolinguistics: 'We have to be uniquely ourselves, but in a variety of ways.'

Linguistic directions in De Spoorzone of Tilburg

Paper

Jan Dijsselbloem

09/02/2018

23 minutes to read

'De Spoorzone', North of Tilburg station, was claimed in 1886 by Dutch Railways, and received the name 'Forbidden City'. Recently reclaimed, urbanization began. Hiding an abundance of signs, the area displays tons of indexicality.

Why linguists need psychiatrists: towards a psycho-political linguistics

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Ana Deumert

11/01/2018

5 minutes to read

Ana Deumert argues that linguists need to move beyond discourse and representation if they want to understand the affective, visceral dimensions of power, oppression and inequality.

‘Why not a zebra crossing?’, Breda (28-02-2017 , © M. van Gorp)

Who is dangerous?

Paper

Meauraine van Gorp

22/09/2017

15 minutes to read

Participating in traffic situations requires knowing the norms and trusting others knowing the same norms. This paper, using linguistic landscape analysis, analyzes the underlying structures of a fake zebra crossing.

Exploring the Linguistic Landscape in the Sofia Subway

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Asya Krusteva

28/04/2017

12 minutes to read

In language policy certain norms and laws should be strictly followed. However, in the Sofia subway this seems not to happen. Four examples of language mistakes are analyzed in this paper, as well as a map with some correctly written names.