Language and Society

Language is central to people’s personal, social, political and professional lives, and a powerful resource for communicating, learning and building knowledge. Committed to the values of equality, diversity and inclusion, our research takes language as a social practice as its point of departure, more specifically linguistic practices in contexts of exclusion, marginalisation and disparities in access.

Our approach is interdisciplinary, critical and reflexive, grounded in the theoretical and methodological expertise of a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. We are interested in questions such as:

• How do we communicate across linguistic and cultural boundaries under conditions of rapid social change worldwide?
• How can we account for social biases and discrimination in discourses and communication relating to race, gender, and class?
• How are linguistic practices intertwined with technologies?
• How can educational technologies contribute to addressing inequalities and help promote social justice in teaching and learning?

Publications

Sociality and Moral Conflicts (2022-01)
Marquez Reiter, Rosina and Kadar, D.
Pragmatics and Society, 13(1) (pp. 1-22)

Translocalisation of values, relationality and offence (2022)
Marquez Reiter, Rosina
Language and Communication ((In Press))

Helm, F., & Hauck, M. (in press). Language, Identity and Positioning in Virtual Exchange. In: L. Klimanova (Ed.), Identity, Multilingualism, and CALL. CALICO Book Series. Equinox. 

Assessment and English as a medium of instruction: Challenges and Opportunities (2022)
Hultgren, Anna Kristina; Owen, Nathaniel; Shrestha, Prithvi; Kuteeva, Maria and Mezek, Spela
Journal of English-Medium Instruction, 1(1) (pp. 105-123)

The Politics of Conviviality: on the ground experiences from Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in Elephant & Castle, London. (2021-11)
Marquez Reiter, Rosina
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 25(5) (pp. 662-681)

Satar, Muge and Hauck, Mirjam (2021). Exploring Digital Equity in Online Learning Communities (Virtual Exchange). In: de Medeiros, Ana and Kelly, Debra eds. Language Debates - Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research. Language Acts and Worldmaking, 2. London: John Murray Press, pp. 270–290.

Introduction: Global English and Social Justice (2020-10-07)
Hultgren, Anna Kristina
Nordic Journal of English Studies, 19(3) (pp. 1-9)

Introduction: Language and speakerhood in migratory contexts (2019)
Marquez Reiter, R. and Martín Rojo, L.
International Journal of the Sociology of Language (257) (pp. 1-16)

Language surveillance: pressure to follow local models of speakerhood among Latinx students in Madrid (2019)
Martín Rojo, L. and Marquez Reiter, R.
International Journal of the Sociology of Language (257) (pp. 17-48)

Virtual exchange for (critical) digital literacy skills development (2019)
Hauck, Mirjam
European Journal of Language Policy, 11(2) (pp. 187-210)

Interviews as sites of ideological work (2017-05-31)
Marquez Reiter, Rosina
Spanish in Context, 15(1) (pp. 54-76)