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LEDS Session 3 – Exploring an Ethnohistorical Approach to Multimodality

Posted on 26 November 2019 by Judith Reynolds

post written by Lauren O’Hagan This third session of LEDS (on 20 November) was facilitated by Dr Lauren O’Hagan, Research Associate in the Centre for Language and Communication Research. The aim of the session was to introduce Lauren’s historical approach to ethnography and discuss the potential benefits of grounding multimodal analysis in evidence from archival
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Special Announcement: Ben Rampton on 11 December

Posted on 22 November 2019 by Judith Reynolds

We are excited to welcome one of Linguistic Ethnography’s best-known figures, Professor Ben Rampton (Professor of Applied and Socio-Linguistics at King’s College London), to Cardiff on 11th December and to the LEDS group.  Ben is visiting the Centre for Language and Communication Research (ENCAP) and will give a Research Seminar on the topic of ”Sociolinguistic
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LEDS Session 3 – 20th November: An ethnohistorical approach to multimodality

Posted on 5 November 2019 by Judith Reynolds

Our third LEDS session of this term will be facilitated by Dr Lauren O’Hagan, Research Associate in the Centre for Language and Communication Research. Lauren will talk to us about her innovative research, which explores literacy and class conflict in Edwardian Britain (1901-14) through book inscriptions. Lauren uses an ethnohistorical approach to multimodality, which blends visual
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LEDS Session 2 – Discussion of recently published work in linguistic ethnography

Posted on 5 November 2019 by Judith Reynolds

In LEDS’ second session of 2019-20 on 30 October 2019, we enjoyed exploring and discussing the breadth of linguistic ethnographic work through consideration of a selection of ten recent research article abstracts. Abstract selection In preparation for the session, a purposeful selection of abstracts was made from a list of 100 articles returned from a
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