As China and Chinese language learning moves centre stage economically and politically,
questions of interculturality assume even greater significance. In this book interculturality …

Social Theory for English for Academic 178 the 'ethical'(Tyler, 1986: 122). Similarly, rather
than the positivist position where the ethnographer is an objective observer and recorder of …

In the following opinion article, Joseph Ford and Emanuelle Santos give a short account of
work being done with a view to 'decolonise languages' in UK Higher Education and pose …

This article draws on interview data to report how students of Mandarin in UK universities
were exposed to and responded to 'Chinese culture'during their studies. The experiences …

ABSTRACT From January 2017 until January 2020, the Stormont assembly in Northern
Ireland was suspended, with the Irish language being cited as the main stumbling block to …

This chapter considers how ethnographic approaches to creative practice, in this case
devised street theatre, might enable new understandings of communication. In focusing on …

In 2022 a survey of the languages research community in the UK was undertaken, with 536
responses (150 PhD students, 386 post-PhD researchers), complemented by 29 interviews …

Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language
and culture of Italy, Somalia's former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young …

Critics have signalled the difficulties for artists from African countries and their diasporas in
relation to the hegemonic international art system. Those whose work appears to conform to …

This article draws on personal experience of undertaking a Master of Research Linguistic
Landscape (LL) project, building on my undergraduate dissertation (O'Neill 2020) into city …