New book: LANGUAGE, MIGRATION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES A Critical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Institutions and Work Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Melissa Moyer and Celia Roberts

This stimulating volume brings together classic strands of critical sociolinguistic work on how immigrants are disadvantaged in social gatekeeping institutions and the contemporary sociolinguistics of globalization. Taking a broad view of ‘migrants’ as sociolinguistically mobile citizens, the authors mobilize an impressive array of ideological, political and economic frameworks to explore the continuing power of institutions to confer and withhold status […]

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Intersectionality and class ethnicity, race and gender in sociolinguistics research: Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics Seminar

Intersectionality and class ethnicity, race and gender in sociolinguistics research: Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics Seminar Here is the link to a presentation and PowerPoint given by David Block  at Birkbeck University yesterday. It seems to be to do with how race, gender and social class interact together in language practices.  

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