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Language practices - fields, methods, theories
The aim of this seminar is to support M2 and PhD students interested in the use of language practices in contexts such as the family, school, work, health or justice, traversed by issues of power and inequality. A strong emphasis is placed on relevant methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks (interactional sociolinguistics, critical sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, political anthropology, etc.), and on the circulation of knowledge from a variety of geographical areas and academic traditions, in order to link the study of language practices with contemporary socio-anthropological and political issues. In 2024-2025, the seminar will focus on issues of discrimination.
Seminar dates in 2024-2025: 07/02, 07/03, 04/04.
Location: room LO.01 at Inalco's Maison de la Recherche (2, rue de Lille - 75007 Paris)
(except 07/02 exceptionally at PLC 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Amphi 8).
The lectures are also broadcast via Zoom.
Session on February 7, 2025
Location: PLC (65, rue des Grands Moulins - 75013 Paris - Amphi 8) - exceptionally
Times: 2-5pm
- Birgül Yılmaz (University of Exeter): Linguistic precarity and (im)mobility in Greece
Based on an 18 month long ethnographic fieldwork in Athens, where I observed English language classes organised in a radical cafe, where I met a group of refugees who lived in a squat, in this presentation, I focus on how (im)mobility shapes refugees' linguistic needs. I investigate how waiting as a bordering technology and language learning practices of refugees intersects whilst they plan their journeys to northern Europe via human smugglers. The notion of linguistic precarity refers to uncertainties, anxieties, vulnerabilities, insecurities experienced by individuals who make temporary investments in their language learning choices. I discuss how my participants mobilize vulnerability, lack of language(s), through self-organised teaching and learning, to reduce their condition of precarity.