Adrian Blackledge

List of John Benjamins publications for which Adrian Blackledge plays a role.

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Subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Language policy | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Khan, Kamran and Adrian Blackledge 2017 ‘They look into our lips’: Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourseLanguage and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 65–88 | Article
The British citizenship ceremony marks the legal endpoint of the naturalisation process. While the citizenship ceremony may be a celebration, it can also be a final examination. Using an ethnographically-informed case study, this article follows one candidate, ‘W’, through the naturalisation… read more
Khan, Kamran and Adrian Blackledge 2015 ‘They look into our lips’: Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourseLanguage & Citizenship, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 382–405 | Article
The British citizenship ceremony marks the legal endpoint of the naturalisation process. While the citizenship ceremony may be a celebration, it can also be a final examination. Using an ethnographically-informed case study, this article follows one candidate, ‘W’, through the naturalisation… read more
Blackledge, Adrian and Angela Creese 2013 Heteroglossia in English complementary schoolsLinguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches, Duarte, Joana and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 123–142 | Article
In this chapter we propose that Bakhtin’s understanding of voicing as heteroglossia offers rich potential in our analysis of contemporary linguistic practice. In and around Mandarin and Cantonese community language classrooms in an English city we show how participants’ voices are infused with the… read more
Blackledge, Adrian 2010 Chapter 16. The practice and politics of multilingualismPerspectives in Politics and Discourse, Okulska, Urszula and Piotr Cap (eds.), pp. 301–326 | Article
Language testing in various forms has been used for some time as a gate-keeping mechanism to determine whether applications for citizenship are successful. In recent times the rationale set out by politicians for such a policy has been that some people’s failure to learn and use English… read more