Friday 23rd of June

9.30am - 12.30pm / 1.30pm - 4.30pm

Hope Room, The Studio

Dr Andrew Smith, Dr Bethan Benwell, Prof Adrian Blackledge, Prof Angela Creese, Dr Ildegrada da Costa Cabral, Dr Viola Wiegand & Dr Adnan Yılmaz

Angela Creese is Professor of Linguistic Ethnography in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling. Her research interests are in sociolinguistics, multilingualism and interaction in everyday life. She has been a principal and co-investigator on 10+ UKRI externally funded grants using linguistic ethnography in their research design.  She has published widely and is the recipient of several international awards and fellowships including the Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Advanced Research Collaborative, City University New York, 2019-2020. 

About this Session

During this full-day interdisciplinary training course, you will be introduced to linguistic ethnography through a series of workshops and lectures given by a team of experts based at the University of Stirling. You will consider the relationship between linguistics and ethnography, and explore practical data analysis using a variety of discourse and ethnographic approaches. The event is aimed at doctoral students across Scotland from the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Schedule

10.00-10.45 Introduction and initial discussion of student projects in small groups
10:45-11:45 Lecture: Developments in Linguistic Ethnography (Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge)
11:45-12.00 Break
12:00-12:45 Data analysis workshop
12:45-13.00 Plenary discussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14.00 – 14.30 Lecture: Multilingual perspectives in linguistic ethnography (Ildegrada da Costa Cabral)
14.30 - 15.00 Data analysis workshop
15.00 – 15.15 Break
15.15 - 15.45 Lecture: Conversation analysis in linguistic ethnography (Bethan Benwell)
15.45 – 16.15 Data analysis workshop
16.15 – 16.30 Plenary discussion

Event contact: andrew.smith@stir.ac.uk 

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First published: 17 May 2023