This issue engages with contemporary sociological debates on reflexivity, youth, and late modernity. Drawing from the ontological and epistemological lens of linguistic ethnography, the contributors describe different indexical forms of language use (linguistic styles, discourse registers, small… read more
[AILA Review, 29] 2016. iii, 213 pp. | open access
This article focuses on the entanglement of trajectories of transnational education/work and religious conversion among Chinese overseas students who move to the UK before returning to China. In contrast to the existing literature on returnees where the gaze is only turned on highly prestigious… read more
This article engages with Archer’s call to further research on reflexivity and social change under conditions of late modernity (2007, 2010, 2012) from the perspective of existing work on reflexive discourse in the language disciplines (Silverstein 1976, Lucy 1993). Drawing from a linguistic… read more
Este artículo reflexiona sobre las potencialidades y limitaciones del método etnográfico para el estudio sociolingüístico de los procesos de movilidad asociados a la nueva economía globalizada. En particular, se analizan los dilemas metodológicos derivados de un viaje de investigación entre el… read more