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Chronotope

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A chronotope, as defined by Bakhtin, is a specific spacetime context enabling a plot, characters, and rules for action and meaning.

Linguistic landscape

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Linguistic landscape is an object of sociolinguistic analysis and comprises publicly visible language samples displayed in a certain area.

Coevalness

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The term coevalness refers to sharing the same timeframe. Much like 'medieval' refers to the middle ages, co-eval refers to a shared age.

Ethnography

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Ethnography can be defined as the small-scale study of human behavior through "clinical" observation and intersubjective participation.

Digital ethnography

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Digital ethnography is a specific approach to research ‘on online practices and communications, and on offline practices shaped by digitalisation’

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Motorcyclists and police surveillance: driving daringly without getting caught

Article

Emma Wieringa

11/06/2021

11 minutes to read

Some motorcyclists like to drive in ways that are prohibited by the law: too fast, with wheelies, and so on. What measures do they take to avoid surveillance on public roads, making them unfindable by the police?

The politics of Karen memes

Paper

Pleun Kersten

17/05/2021

9 minutes to read

This article analyzes the 'karen' meme, and how it has evolved as a critique of white supremacy.

Corona the Colonizer: a podcast on the experience of international students at Tilburg University

Article

Nina Groeskamp

Kirsten Verbeek

Tessa Willemsen

30/03/2021

3 minutes to read

The podcast Corona the Colonizer is centered around the metaphor of the pandemic as a colonizer. By interviewing three Tilburg University students an answer is provided to whether experiencing the pandemic unites or divides them.

Reddit's GameStop rush (doesn't) change(s) the stock market

Column

Nataliia Vdovychenko

31/01/2021

7 minutes to read

GameStop has shaken the stock market with the help of Reddit users, or at least that is wat the news suggests. What is certain is that for the first time in history, the news about stocks is talking about the 'online community' rather than the wolves of Wall Street. How did this shift happen, and what are the long-term consequences?

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Jan Blommaert's struggle

Column

Jenny-Louise Van Der Aa

10/01/2021

2 minutes to read

Jan Blommaert has recently passed away. Jenny Van der Aa reflects on his political and democratic engagement as one of his former close collaborators at Tilburg and Ghent University.

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Farewell, Jan Blommaert

Article

Tom Van Hout

09/01/2021

2 minutes to read

Tom Van Hout says farewell to Jan Blommaert. He praises not only the academic, but also the man who normalized vulnerability

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Semiotic futures: celebrating Jan Blommaert’s radical scholarship

Column

Ana Deumert

05/01/2021

8 minutes to read

In this column Ana Deumert pays tribute to Jan Blommaert's scholareship, focusing on the text From Fieldnotes to Grammar (2013), and the possibility of formulating a 'new science of language'.

face mask, corona, covid, culture, corona culture

The COVID19 lockdown rules: How we learn and adjust

Column

Jan Blommaert

14/05/2020

7 minutes to read

The COVID19 lockdown crisis involves many of us rapidly learning and adjusting to entirely new rules, many of which used to be 'weird' until recently.