Language practices - fields, methods, theories - 2025/2026

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. An important place is given to relevant methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks (interactional sociolinguistics, critical sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, political anthropology etc.) and to the circulation of knowledge from varied geographical areas and academic traditions in order to link the study of language practices with contemporary socio-anthropological and political issues.

With the support of the Inalco Doctoral School and the UMR SeDyL.

Session on October 17, 2025

Maison de la Recherche (2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris) - L0.01 - 9:30am-12:30pm
The seminar will also be accessible by zoom from 10am.

• Florence Bonacina-Pugh (The University of Edinburgh) : Exploring 'practiced language policies': Advancing the Empirical turn in language policy research.

Session on November 7, 2025

Maison de la Recherche (2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris) - L0.01 - 9:30am-12:30pm
The seminar will also be accessible by zoom from 10am.

• Dr Zakeera Docrat (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) : Linguistic prejudices experienced by African Language Speaking Witnesses and Legal Practitioners: A South African Case Study