Ode to the City - An Ethnographic Drama

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80041-516-4
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 82 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

This ethnographic drama script is adapted from observations conducted in a large city centre library in the UK. The action focuses on the staff room in the library, where the fictionalised characters of four customer experience assistants, threatened with redundancy, take their lunch and tea breaks. The ethnographic drama is a creative curation of field notes, transcripts, audio recordings, video recordings, conversations and observations. It tells a story of political tension in everyday life at a time of austerity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blackledge, Adrian

Creese, Angela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Setting and Characters

Act I

Act II

Act III

Act IV

Über Autor(innen)

Creese, Angela
Angela Creese is Professor of Linguistic Ethnography at the University of Stirling, UK. She has published widely on multilingualism and ethnographic methods.

Blackledge, Adrian
Adrian Blackledge is Professor of Applied Linguistics at University of Warwick, U.K. He conducts ethnographic research in the field of language in society, with a particular focus of multilingualism and translanguaging. He is developing creative approaches to the representation of research outcomes. He is author or editor of 14 books, the latest of these is Essays in Linguistic Ethnography: Ethics, Aesthetics, Encounters (2013, Multilingual Matters), with Angela Creese. His current research project is “Strategies to strengthen European linguistic capital in a globalised world” (MultiLX, 2025-2027). He was Poet Laureate for the city of Birmingham, 2014-2016

Adrian Blackledge is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Stirling, UK. He has published widely on both multilingualism and sociolinguistics. He was Birmingham Poet Laureate from 2014-2016.

Angela Creese is Professor of Linguistic Ethnography at the University of Stirling, UK. She has published widely on multilingualism and ethnographic methods. Together with Adrian Blackledge she is the author of Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography (Multilingual Matters, 2019), Interpretations – An Ethnographic Drama (Multilingual Matters, 2021) and Volleyball – An Ethnographic Drama (Multilingual Matters, 2021).