Jürgen Jaspers forsker på utdanning, urban flerspråklighet og språkpolitikk gjennom etnografi og interaksjonell diskursanalyse. Jaspers presenterer foredraget sitt på denne måten:
Sociolinguistics ideologized: constructions of expertise in mainstream media
In this lecture I will discuss how expertise over language is (re)configured in mainstream media. Based on two different cases in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking north of Belgium, I will go into how journalists’ and sociolinguists’ interests often conflict and can result in unwanted attributions of expertise, or to the staging of sociolinguists as so-called experts, useful as a foil for redefining what is viewed as more reasonable public knowledge over language. Rather than proposing that such altercations illustrate the sore predicament of honest scientists, however, I will argue that they offer the building blocks for developing a better understanding of the transactions between experts and media in late-modern circumstances.
Foredraget vil foregå på engelsk.
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