Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World
Adrian Blackledge
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 15] 2005. x, 252 pp.
Adrian Blackledge
List of John Benjamins publications for which Adrian Blackledge plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Language policy | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2017 ‘They look into our lips’: Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse Language and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 65–88 | Article
The British citizenship ceremony marks the legal endpoint of the naturalisation process. While the citizenship ceremony may be a celebration, it can also be a final examination. Using an ethnographically-informed case study, this article follows one candidate, ‘W’, through the naturalisation… read more
2015 ‘They look into our lips’: Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse Language & Citizenship, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 382–405 | Article
The British citizenship ceremony marks the legal endpoint of the naturalisation process. While the citizenship ceremony may be a celebration, it can also be a final examination. Using an ethnographically-informed case study, this article follows one candidate, ‘W’, through the naturalisation… read more
2013 Heteroglossia in English complementary schools Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches, Duarte, Joana and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 123–142 | Article
In this chapter we propose that Bakhtin’s understanding of voicing as heteroglossia offers rich potential in our analysis of contemporary linguistic practice. In and around Mandarin and Cantonese community language classrooms in an English city we show how participants’ voices are infused with the… read more
2010 Chapter 16. The practice and politics of multilingualism Perspectives in Politics and Discourse, Okulska, Urszula and Piotr Cap (eds.), pp. 301–326 | Article
2009 Being English, speaking English: Extension to English language testing legislation and the future of multicultural
Britain Discourses on Language and Integration: Critical perspectives on language testing regimes in Europe, Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle, Clare Mar-Molinero and Patrick Stevenson (eds.), pp. 83–108 | Chapter
Language testing in various forms has been used for some time as a gate-keeping
mechanism to determine whether applications for citizenship are successful. In recent
times the rationale set out by politicians for such a policy has been that some people’s
failure to learn and use English… read more
2001 3. Power relations and the social construction of ‘literacy’ and ‘illiteracy’: the experience of Bangladeshi women in Birmingham Multilingual Literacies: Reading and writing different worlds, Martin-Jones, Marilyn and Kathryn E. Jones (eds.), pp. 55 ff. | Chapter