Pub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2023-0260
Christoph A. Hafner, Sylvia Jaworska, Tongle Sun
Much applied linguistic research has investigated how experts from different disciplines – different “disciplinary tribes” – present knowledge claims, drawing on taken-for-granted disciplinary ideologies and epistemologies. However, this research has mainly focused on specialist to specialist communication rather than specialist to non-specialist communication. This article aims to fill this gap by examining a corpus of mainstream media “expert opinion articles”, written by experts for members of the public, on the topic of the COVID-19 crisis and published in The Guardian and The New York Times. The corpus included articles by experts in Medical Science, Medical Practice, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, Law, and Economics. Using corpus-based discourse analysis, we consider the effect of discipline on the way that experts present and evidence knowledge claims. We compare the kinds of experts, their content focus, and forms of evidentiality seen in verbal evidentials used in the articles. The analysis identifies four discourse strategies: (1) deriving knowledge from experience; (2) invoking the knowledge of the expert community; (3) invoking vernacular knowledge; and (4) raising claims in argument or critique. Differences in disciplinary epistemologies lead to systematic differences in presenting and evidencing knowledge claims, even in texts primarily intended for a wide public audience.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0088
Katharina Brizić
In line with increasing forced migrations around the globe, there is also a growing need for ethical encounters between researchers and those forcefully displaced. This article focuses on responsible Listening, defined as the ethically motivated effort of researchers to conduct communication at eye level. However, findings have shown that listeners (e.g., researchers in institution or study settings) may already feel unsettled on the far more basic level of hearing a human voice, if certain implicit (e.g., aesthetic) expectations are not met. This makes encounters particularly vulnerable after forced migration where voices tend to be easily silenced. I will show by means of an empirical example what hearing a voice in its materiality, i.e. intonation, rhythm, accentuation etc., can set off, and how a privileged space of Listening to the Other can emerge.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0055
Chra Rasheed Mahmud
Material belongings have a significant impact on shaping one’s identity, and they play a crucial role as identity markers and valuable instruments for negotiating distinctions among diverse communities, especially for those who experience migration. This research focuses on a specific group of Iraqi Kurdish migrants living in the UK, exploring how they navigate and mould their cultural identity through their cherished possessions. Utilizing a multimodal approach, data collection involved narrative interviews and visual ethnography methods, such as photo voice. The dataset underwent a systematic thematic analysis following Braun and Clarke’s methodology, leading to an objective and cohesive thematic presentation. The findings underscore the significance of material culture for Iraqi-Kurdish participants in this study. These respondents held deep emotional connections to material objects, linking the landscapes of their past lives to their present experiences in the UK. By cherishing and preserving these possessions, they established a discursive “third space” to express emotions and negotiate their complex “in-between” identities. This term describes a state of dilemma wherein individuals grapple with conflicting senses of identity due to exposure to and affiliation with two distinct cultures. Specifically, it applies to participants who simultaneously value and embrace both their Kurdish culture and identity, as well as their British culture and identity.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0086
Angela Creese
This article describes the social and ethical responsibility researchers experience in undertaking ethnographic research under conditions of neoliberalism. It acknowledges the hierarchical nature of working in large ethnographic teams in which a mixture of employment contracts and statuses exist. Drawing on relational ethics (Levinas 2003. Humanism of the Other. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.), and its attention to the humanizing potential of difference, the paper describes researchers’ propensity for relationality in the face of competitive neoliberalism. It presents a case study of a large research team and investigates the use of research vignettes to represent and relate in difference. Subjectivity is theorized not in terms of identity but rather through alterity and opacity arguing this direction opens up social and political alliances (Butler 2005. Giving an Account of Oneself. New York: Fordham University Press.). Specifically, the paper suggests the research vignette is a genre well suited to documenting the way humans live in difference, illustrating how the researcher yields to the face of the Other in field work encounters. As a form the research vignette is said to bridge the aesthetic and the scientific, demanding of its reader an engagement with a variety of interpretations. Further, the vignette is considered for its methodological potential in creating a dialogic relational space for research teams within the neoliberal university.
本文描述了研究人员在新自由主义条件下开展人种学研究时所经历的社会和伦理责任。文章承认在大型人种学团队中工作的等级性质，其中存在着各种雇佣合同和身份。借鉴关系伦理学（列维纳斯，2003 年。他者的人文主义》。Champaign：本文借鉴关系伦理学（Levinas 2003.本文介绍了一个大型研究团队的案例研究，并调查了研究小故事在差异中的表现和关系。主观性不是从身份的角度，而是从改变性和不透明性的角度进行理论化的，认为这一方向开启了社会和政治联盟（巴特勒，2005 年。Giving an Account of Oneself.纽约：福特汉姆大学出版社）。具体而言，本文认为研究小故事是一种非常适合记录人类在差异中生活方式的体裁，它说明了研究者在田野工作中如何屈从于他者的面孔。作为一种形式，研究小故事被认为是美学与科学的桥梁，要求读者参与各种解释。此外，我们还考虑了小插图在为新自由主义大学中的研究团队创造对话关系空间方面的方法论潜力。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-06DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0060
Roberta Piazza
(Cupchik, Gerald. 2013. I am, therefore I think, act, and express both in life and in art. Art and identity 32. 67–91) claims that being is associated with artistic expressions of various kinds. In line with this notion, the present paper reports on a socially engaged art project that involved the clients at a day centre for people experiencing homelessness. For nearly four months, the participants met once a week for a few hours under the direction of a facilitator and a film-maker who video-recorded the group activities. The experimental ethnographic project aimed to establish whether engagement in creative art can provide these usually ‘invisible’ individuals with an opportunity to reflect on their self and find a voice. The paper describes the group’s activities and the individuals’ responses. The focus is on the minimal narratives the clients produced from surrealistic scenarios to personal memories and political reprieves. The study shows how intrinsically participatory art, centred on the encounter of the participants’ different subjectivities, can encourage self-reflection among individuals with problematic lives.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0083
Magdalena Kubanyiova, Angela Creese
This article explains the rationale for proposing an applied linguistics of ethical encounters. It does so by extending the current reach beyond the critical and ideological commentary of unjust linguistic practices and considers how applied linguistics research might play an active role in both theorising and enabling ethical encounters. By ethical encounters we mean those that enact the political vision of an inclusive and just society in face-to-face meetings with particular others, i.e. the Other. We ground our inquiry in a relational framework, which places the subject’s responsibility at the heart of ethical relationships and as a basis for a political achievement of just society in settings of trauma, social stigma and unequal power relationships. We argue that the subject’s ethical responsibility is not merely interactionally accomplished but also aesthetically experienced in particular moments of proximity to others. We examine opportunities for an engaged applied linguistics that arise when its inquiry is pursued through the ethical and aesthetic lens.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0085
Ingrid Rodrick Beiler, Joke Dewilde
The aim of this article is to investigate ethical and aesthetic dimensions of negotiating linguistic differences between researchers and participants in the initial research consent process, based on data from a collaborative research project in adult basic education for immigrants, in which a large number of students initially refused to participate. First, we interpret negotiations of consent as relational acts, where teachers and multilingual staff facilitated moral proximity through their affinity or shared biography with students, allowing us to move from anticipated difference to events of subjectivity. Second, we analyze research ethics protocols, notably the standardized consent letter, as aesthetic signs that evoked an affective response, which variously recalled unfavourable subject positions within neoliberal or authoritarian governmentality, including memories of trauma. The dynamic connection between aesthetics and relational ethics highlights the shortcomings of current institutional ethics requirements, since aesthetic interpretation cannot be fully anticipated and instead requires meaning-making in concrete relational encounters.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0090
Quentin Williams
This paper proposes a sociolinguistics of in difference, an inquiry-based approach to stancetaking on others. It describes how multilingual speakers in an online context orientate towards a stance-object and affiliate, align and negotiate difference through embodied performances, as part of advancing an ethics of responsibility for the other and aesthetic investments. In the analysis of such orientations, I draw on virtual interactional data to illustrate how in difference through stancetaking is entextualized in the aesthetic, embodied performance of parody, in so-called Coloured English, Kaaps and a mixture of other languages by an emerging R&B and pop group in Cape Town. I demonstrate how the group invest in embodied performances merge the material, linguistic, cultural and semiotic significance of the body to undermine fixity and categorization. But also, how push-back from YouTube commentators, influencers, reactors take up evaluative, affective and epistemic stances as they move from difference to in difference. I conclude with the argument that in order for us to take adequate account of an ethics of responsibility for the other and describing aesthetic investments in embodied performances we have to recalibrate our theoretical and methodological toolkit to understand what it means to use language with dignity, to encounter each other in spaces of dignity and to just be dignified in diversity.
本文提出了一种 "差异社会语言学"（sociolinguistics of in difference），这是一种以探究为基础的研究他人立场的方法。它描述了在网络语境中，多语言使用者是如何通过体现性表演来定位立场对象和关联、调整和协商差异的，以此作为推进对他人负责和审美投资伦理的一部分。在分析这种取向时，我利用虚拟互动数据来说明，开普敦的一个新兴 R&B 和流行音乐团体如何在模仿的美学、具身表演中，用所谓的有色人种英语（Coloured English）、卡普斯语（Kaaps）和其他混合语言，通过 "站位"（stancetaking）来体现差异。我展示了该团体如何通过身体表演，将身体的物质、语言、文化和符号意义融合在一起，从而破坏固定性和分类。同时，YouTube 评论员、影响者和反应者在从差异到差异中的过程中，是如何采取评价、情感和认识论立场的。最后，我想说的是，为了让我们充分考虑到对他人负责的伦理学，并描述在具身表演中的美学投资，我们必须重新调整我们的理论和方法工具包，以理解有尊严地使用语言、在有尊严的空间中相遇以及在多样性中保持尊严的含义。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0087
Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi
This paper emerged from an encounter with the Black Lives Matter placard I understand that I will never understand but I stand with you in Leipzig, Germany, and it centers white understanding as a constitutive practice of whiteness. This is mainly a theoretical contribution (learning towards the philosophical), although it includes some interview data and observations from protest participation. I contribute to raciolinguistics by reading the concept of the white listening subject through Barad’s new materialist notion of apparatuses, asking what exactly constitutes white understanding. This allows me to bring out the potentials and pitfalls (i.e. the counter/productivity) of white understanding as a reflective practice, which I put into conversation with my embodied practice of under-standing (i.e. standing under) the placard at a BLM protest in Berlin. I show how the white body is measured by a Black norm in the protest space, producing a productive discomfort filled with opportunities for becoming response-able towards the Black Other, but also towards whiteness. Considering the ethico-esthetic framing of this collection, I pursue an aesthethics of wor(l)ding that inter-rupts, dis/entangles, and walks around with and in words. It gestures towards what we usually leave out when pursuing one analytical avenue over another.
本文是在德国莱比锡与 "我理解，我永远不会理解，但我与你们站在一起"（Black Lives Matter placard I understand that I will never understand but I stand with you）标语牌的相遇中产生的，它将白人理解作为白人性的一种构成性实践。这主要是一种理论贡献（向哲学学习），尽管其中包括一些访谈数据和参与抗议活动的观察结果。我通过巴拉德的新唯物主义工具概念来解读白人倾听主体的概念，询问究竟什么构成了白人理解，从而为种族语言学做出贡献。这使我能够提出白人理解作为一种反思实践的潜力和陷阱（即反作用/生产力），我将其与我在柏林 BLM 抗议活动中理解标语牌（即站在标语牌下）的具体实践相结合。我展示了白人身体如何在抗议空间中被黑人标准所衡量，从而产生一种富有成效的不适感，这种不适感充满了对黑人他者以及白人做出回应的机会。考虑到本作品集的伦理-美学框架，我追求的是一种工作（l）设计美学，这种工作（l）设计与文字相互干扰、相互分离、相互游走。它的姿态是，当我们追求一种分析途径时，通常会忽略另一种分析途径。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0058
Rosalchen Whitecross
The focus of this paper is the hidden world of women’s imprisonment as revealed in their writing produced in creative writing workshops. Proceeding from the perspective of narrative inquiry as a methodology to study lived experience, this study explores the juxtaposed spaces of the closed, exclusionary carceral world and the open, creative space of the writing workshop. Here we come to find the personal, situated within the wider carceral institution, in the marginalised voices of women in prison, writing their stories in their own words. The prison environment is seldom envisaged as a space that promotes literacy, education, the arts or creativity. This paper takes a relational perspective of creative writing workshops as a space which enables and facilitates prison writing, becoming a bridge between the enclosed prison space and the world outside. Following Foucault (1986. Of other spaces. Translated by Jay Miskowiec. Diacrities 16(1). 22-27) the creative writing workshop and the textual space of writing may be seen as heterotopic spaces of play, empathy and inclusion that reflect the prison in the language of marginalisation. It gives the opportunity to women in prison to write about their inner lifeworld as a process to bear witness to their experience and work through the trauma of imprisonment. This writing in the textual space becomes a reflection of the repressive heterotopic space of prison and serves as a counter-narrative to the master narrative of punishment and prison. Therefore, whilst the writers in prison reach out to poetic and creative techniques to capture colours, metaphors and genres such as the fairy tale, the reader is constantly confronted by the harsh reality of their lived experience of confinement and their lives pre-imprisonment.
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