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.

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.

TPCS 2: Enough is enough: The heuristics of authenticity in superdiversity

Working paper

Jan Blommaert

Piia Varis

30/08/2024

This short paper intends to sketch an empirical theory of identity in a context of superdiversity. It adds to the development of new approaches to language and semiotics in superdiverse environments.

TPCS 1: Lessons in textspeak from Sexy Chick: Supervernacular literacy in South African Instant and Text Messaging

Working paper

The Editors

01/09/2011

The uptake of mobile phones has created new communicative environments which in turn create new possibilities and opportunities for identity making and the making of (super)communities.