TPCS

Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies are published by the DCU department at Tilburg University. TPCS is intended to be a genuine ‘working papers’ series. That means that work-in-progress is invited, that papers do not yet require the level of elaboration usually demanded of journal-publishable papers, that good MA dissertations can also be included, and so on.

Beyond the scripts of digital posters: a case study of language ideologies and writing practices in contemporary China

Academic paper

Yan Jia

09/02/2024

31 minutes to read

This article examines how written scripts used by different social actors in digital media are informed by language ideologies in contemporary China.

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SoundCloud & White Iverson: Breaking Free From The Prerogative Industrial Tyranny

Article

Wessel Joosten

30/09/2024

15 minutes to read

This essay examines SoundCloud's impact on global music, showing the shift from McLuhan's "hot" to "cool" media through Post Malone's White Iverson. It highlights how SoundCloud democratized music and fostered interactive, participatory engagement.

TPCS 8: Placing Shibboleths at the Institutional Gate: LADO tests and the construction of asylum seekers’ identities

Working paper

Max Spotti

Joachim Detailleur

11/10/2024

Can a sociolinguistic analysis be used to address a migrant's language as a resource of origin? This working paper critically engages with the so-called 'LADO-test' to argue that the LADO analysis ought to be driven by an understanding of language as a spatio-temporal resource, linked to macro socio-political events that have characterized the life and the migration history of the applicant.

TPCS 7: On Learning a Language in Transformation: Two final year students’ experiences in Chinese complementary education

Working paper

Jinling Li

Kasper Juffermans

04/10/2024

How are Chinese-Dutch children experiencing Chinese language learning in the Netherlands? This working paper analyzes two accounts of final year students to find out how Chinese-Dutch children identify with Chinese language.

TPCS 6: Deprivation, Distance and Connectivity: The adaptation of mobile phone use to a life in Wesbank, a post-Apartheid township in South Africa

Working paper

f.velghe@uvt.nl

27/09/2024

Technological developments have created new hopes regarding the ways in which mobile phones might close the gap between the developed and the developing world.

TPCS 5: In beloved memory of: Facebook, death and subjectivity

Working paper

Piia Varis

Max Spotti

20/09/2024

New socio-technological tools certainly have an empowering dimension. However, they also shape our subjectivities by regulating them and limiting our agency. This working paper discusses these socio-technological developments through the case of Facebook, in order to demonstrate the implications social media like Facebook have for subjectivity and social practices.

TPCS 4: Which language? Which culture? Which pedagogy? A study of Mandarin Chinese teachers’ perceptions of their professional self in a British school context

Working paper

The Editors

13/09/2024

Inspired by a growing interest in Mandarin, this research looks into the ideological conceptualisation of Mandarin teaching in British schools through the eyes of teachers of Mandarin.

TPCS 3: Truly Moving Texts

Working paper

Sjaak Kroon

06/09/2024

As the world is continuously globalizing, we can no longer analyze language as a local, resident and stable complex of signs attached to an equally local, resident and stable community of speakers. This paper engages with an issue which is at the core of this paradigmatic shift: the question of meaning-making in a system which we see as intrinsically unstable and dynamic.