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Blackledge A & Creese A (2022) The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research. Journal of Sociolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12546
Professor Adrian Blackledge
Professor in Education
Education Colin Bell Building University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA
About me
About me
I am Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Stirling.
I was Advanced Research Collaborative Distinguished Visiting Fellow, City University New York, 2019-2020.
My most recent research projects:
2014-2018. Co-Investigator. AHRC Large Grant: ‘Translation and Translanguaging: Investigating Linguistic and Cultural Transformations in Superdiverse Wards in Four UK Cities’. Award £1,973,527. This interdisciplinary research programme developed new understandings of multilingual interaction in cities in the UK, and communicated these to policy-makers and communities locally, nationally, and internationally.
2016-2018. Co-Investigator, AHRC / Global Challenges Research Fund. £184,732. Overcoming Barriers to University Education in South Africa. This project developed translanguaging as language policy in South African universities.
My publications include Voices of a City Market (with Angela Creese, 2019), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity (with Angela Creese, 2018), Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy (with Angela Creese, 2014), The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism (with Marilyn Martin-Jones and Angela Creese, 2012), Multilingualism, A Critical Perspective (with Angela Creese, 2010).
Research (1)
I research the ways in which people communicate in changing, complex societies, especially when they have different histories and semiotic repertoires. I am interested in translanguaging in society and education, and in linguistic ethnography as theory and method.
Projects
GCRF Development Award: Languaging in post-conflict zones: Educating for success in Colombia, Lebanon and South Africa
PI: Professor Angela Creese
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Outputs (48)
Outputs
Article
Recontextualisation and advocacy in the translation zone
Blackledge A & Creese A (2021) Recontextualisation and advocacy in the translation zone. Text and Talk, 41 (1), pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2019-0123
Project Report
Creese A, Blackledge A, Usma Wilches J, Amin T & Madiba M (2021) GCRF Development Award: Languaging in post-conflict zones: Educating for success in Colombia, Lebanon and South Africa Final Report. AHRC/GCRF. https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT005408%2F1
Monograph
Interpretations - An Ethnographic Drama
Blackledge A & Creese A (2021) Interpretations - An Ethnographic Drama. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Article
Interaction ritual and the body in a city meat market
Blackledge A & Creese A (2020) Interaction ritual and the body in a city meat market. Social Semiotics, 30 (1), pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2018.1521355
Book Chapter
Blackledge A & Creese A (2020) Heteroglossia. In: Tusting K (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Ethnography. Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics. Routledge, pp. 97-108. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Linguistic-Ethnography/Tusting/p/book/9781138938168
Article
Stereotypes and chronotopes: The peasant and the cosmopolitan in narratives about migration
Creese A & Blackledge A (2020) Stereotypes and chronotopes: The peasant and the cosmopolitan in narratives about migration. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 24 (4), pp. 419-440. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12376
Article
Translanguaging and Public Service Encounters: Language Learning in the Library
Creese A & Blackledge A (2019) Translanguaging and Public Service Encounters: Language Learning in the Library. The Modern Language Journal, 103 (4), pp. 800-814. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12601
Authored Book
Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography
Blackledge A & Creese A (2019) Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Book Chapter
Language, superdiversity, and self-employment
Blackledge A & Trehan K (2018) Language, superdiversity, and self-employment. In: Creese A & Blackledge A (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 299-311. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315696010
Article
Translanguaging and translation: the construction of social difference across city spaces
Creese A, Blackledge A & Hu R (2018) Translanguaging and translation: the construction of social difference across city spaces. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 21 (7), pp. 841-852. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2017.1323445
Book Chapter
Blackledge A & Creese A (2017) Translanguaging in mobility. In: Canagarajah S (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 31-46. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315754512
Article
Blackledge A & Creese A (2017) Translanguaging and the body. International Journal of Multilingualism, 14 (3), pp. 250-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2017.1315809
Article
The 'other woman' in a mother and daughter relationship: The case of Mami Ji
Creese A & Blackledge A (2017) The 'other woman' in a mother and daughter relationship: The case of Mami Ji. Language in Society, 46 (2), pp. 185-206. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404516000993
Book Chapter
Everyday encounters in the marketplace: Translanguaging in the super-diverse city
Blackledge A, Creese A & Hu R (2017) Everyday encounters in the marketplace: Translanguaging in the super-diverse city. In: De Fina A, Ikizoglu D & Wegner J (eds.) Diversity and Super-Diversity: Sociocultural linguistic perspectives. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Law Center, pp. 97-116. http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/diversity-and-super-diversity
Book Chapter
Reflexivity in team ethnography: Using researcher vignettes
Creese A, Takhi JK & Blackledge A (2016) Reflexivity in team ethnography: Using researcher vignettes. In: Martin-Jones M & Martin D (eds.) Researching Multilingualism: Critical and ethnographic perspectives. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 203-214. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315405346
Book Chapter
A linguistic ethnography of identity: Adopting a heteroglossic frame
Blackledge A & Creese A (2016) A linguistic ethnography of identity: Adopting a heteroglossic frame. In: Preece S (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 272-288. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315669816
Article
The structure of everyday narrative in a city market: An ethnopoetics approach
Blackledge A, Creese A & Hu R (2016) The structure of everyday narrative in a city market: An ethnopoetics approach. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 20 (5), pp. 654-676. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12213
Article
Language, marriage migration and the law
Blackledge A (2016) Language, marriage migration and the law. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 23 (1), pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v23i1.25894
Book Chapter
Emblems of identities in four European urban settings
Blackledge A & Creese A (2015) Emblems of identities in four European urban settings. In: Nortier J & Svendsen BA (eds.) Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century: Linguistic Practices across Urban Spaces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 167-182. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-youth-and-identity-in-the-21st-century/C1D52D2D7A8B016233BEE9192F8885FE; https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139061896.012
Book Chapter
'A typical gentleman': Metapragmatic stereotypes as systems of distinction
Blackledge A & Creese A (2015) 'A typical gentleman': Metapragmatic stereotypes as systems of distinction. In: Arnaut K, Blommaert J, Rampton B & Spotti M (eds.) Language and Superdiversity. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 155-173. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315730240
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Translanguaging and identity in educational settings
Creese A & Blackledge A (2015) Translanguaging and identity in educational settings. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 35, pp. 20-35. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190514000233
Article
'They look into our lips': Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse
Khan K & Blackledge A (2015) 'They look into our lips': Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse. Journal of Language and Politics, 14 (3), pp. 382-405. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.14.3.04kha
Article
Voice, register and social position
Blackledge A, Creese A & Kaur Takhi J (2014) Voice, register and social position. Multilingua, 33 (5-6), pp. 485-504. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2014-0025
Article
Creese A, Blackledge A & Takhi JK (2014) The ideal 'Native Speaker' teacher: Negotiating authenticity and legitimacy in the language classroom. Modern Language Journal, 98 (4), pp. 937-951. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12148
Book Chapter
Language, superdiversity and education
Blackledge A, Creese A & Takhi JK (2013) Language, superdiversity and education. In: de Saint-Georges I & Weber J (eds.) Multilingualism and Multimodality. The Future of Education Research. The Future of Education Research, 3. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, pp. 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-266-2_4
Book Chapter
Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia in practice
Blackledge A, Creese A & Takhi JK (2013) Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia in practice. In: May S (ed.) The Multilingual Turn: Implications for SLA, TESOL, and Bilingual Education. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 191-215. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203113493
Article
Voice and Meaning-Making in Team Ethnography
Creese A & Blackledge A (2012) Voice and Meaning-Making in Team Ethnography. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 43 (3), pp. 306-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1492.2012.01182.x
Book Chapter
Negotiation of identities across times and spaces
Blackledge A & Creese A (2012) Negotiation of identities across times and spaces. In: Gardner S & Martin-Jones M (eds.) Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 82-94. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203143179
Book Chapter
Creese A & Blackledge A (2011) Ideologies and interactions in multilingual education: What can an ecological approach tell us about bilingual pedagogy?. In: Helot C & O'Laoire M (eds.) Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom: Pedagogy of the Possible - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. Bristol: Changing Childbirth Implimentation Team, pp. 3-21.
Book Chapter
Pride, profit and distinction: Negotiations across time and space in community language education
Blackledge A & Creese A (2011) Pride, profit and distinction: Negotiations across time and space in community language education. In: Duchêne A & Heller M (eds.) Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 116-141. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203155868
Article
Creese A, Blackledge A, Baraç T, Bhatt A, Hamid S, Wei L, Lytra V, Martin P, Wu C & Yağcioğlu D (2011) Separate and flexible bilingualism in complementary schools: Multiple language practices in interrelationship. Journal of Pragmatics, 43 (5), pp. 1196-1208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.10.006
Article
Towards a sociolinguistics of superdiversity
Creese A & Blackledge A (2010) Towards a sociolinguistics of superdiversity. Zeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft, 13 (4), pp. 549-572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-010-0159-y
Article
Translanguaging in the bilingual classroom: A pedagogy for learning and teaching?
Creese A & Blackledge A (2010) Translanguaging in the bilingual classroom: A pedagogy for learning and teaching?. Modern Language Journal, 94 (1), pp. 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2009.00986.x
Article
"As a country we do expect": The further extension of language testing regimes in the United Kingdom
Blackledge A (2009) "As a country we do expect": The further extension of language testing regimes in the United Kingdom. Language Assessment Quarterly, 6 (1), pp. 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434300802606465
Article
Folk stories and social identification in multilingual classrooms
Creese A, Wu C & Blackledge A (2009) Folk stories and social identification in multilingual classrooms. Linguistics and Education, 20 (4), pp. 350-365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2009.10.002
Article
Blackledge A & Creese A (2009) 'Because tumi Bangali': Inventing and disinventing the national in multilingual communities in the UK. Ethnicities, 9 (4), pp. 451-476. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796809345605
Article
Contesting 'Language' as 'Heritage': Negotiation of identities in late modernity
Blackledge A, Creese A, Baraç T, Bhatt A, Hamid S, Wei L, Lytra V, Martin P, Wu C & Yağcioğlu D (2008) Contesting 'Language' as 'Heritage': Negotiation of identities in late modernity. Applied Linguistics, 29 (4), pp. 533-554. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amn024
Article
Blackledge A (2006) The magical frontier between the dominant and the dominated: Sociolinguistics and social justice in a multilingual world. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 27 (1), pp. 22-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/17447140608668536
Book Chapter
Bangladeshi women and their children’s reading
Blackledge A (2005) Bangladeshi women and their children’s reading. In: Cable C (ed.) Primary Teaching Assistants Curriculum in Context. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 203-210. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203422090
Article
Blackledge A (2002) ‘What sort of people can look at a chicken and think dofednod?’: Language, ideology and nationalism in public discourse. Multilingua, 21 (2-3), pp. 197-226. https://doi.org/10.1515/mult.2002.009
Article
Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts
Blackledge A & Pavlenko A (2001) Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts. International Journal of Bilingualism, 5 (3), pp. 243-257. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069010050030101
Article
The wrong sort of capital? Bangladeshi women and their children's schooling in Birmingham, U.K
Blackledge A (2001) The wrong sort of capital? Bangladeshi women and their children's schooling in Birmingham, U.K. International Journal of Bilingualism, 5 (3), pp. 345-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069010050030501
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Language, literacy and social justice: The experiences of Bangladeshi women in Birmingham, UK
Blackledge A (1999) Language, literacy and social justice: The experiences of Bangladeshi women in Birmingham, UK. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 20 (3), pp. 179-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434639908666375
Article
Blackledge A (1998) The institutionalisation of inequality: The initial teacher training national curriculum for primary English as cultural hegemony. Educational Review, 50, pp. 55-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013191980500106
Article
Minority Parents as School Governors in Chicago and Britain: Empowerment or not?
Blackledge A (1995) Minority Parents as School Governors in Chicago and Britain: Empowerment or not?. Educational Review, 47 (3), pp. 309-317. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013191950470307
Article
Poetry and Bias in the Primary School
Blackledge A (1994) Poetry and Bias in the Primary School. Educational Review, 46 (1), pp. 39-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013191940460105
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'We can’t tell our stories in English': Language, story and culture in the primary school
Blackledge A (1993) 'We can’t tell our stories in English': Language, story and culture in the primary school. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 6 (2), pp. 129-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908319309525144