MODL2250
MODL2250 Reading List

Lectures readings (please note the list will expand as the lectures proceed):

Wk 1 Lecture: Introduction to the module - Communication in pandemic times

1. Elisabetta Adami, "How, where and who will we meet and hug again? And why this matters. Understanding Communication in a Global Pandemic and the Future of Social Interaction," in PanMeMic, 19/05/2020, https://panmemic.hypotheses.org/114.  

Wk 2 Lecture: Modes

1. Adami, E. (2017) Multimodality. In O. Garcia, N. Flores and M. Spotti The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pp.451-472)  
2. Jones, Rodney H. (2016) Discourse analysis : a resource book for students ISBN: 9780415610001 (pbk.) : £18.99; 9780415609999 (hbk.) : £65.00; 0415609992 (hbk.) : £65.00; 0415610001 (pbk.) : £18.99. London: Routledge. Sections: A9. Multimodal Discourse Analysis (pp.36-39); B9. Modes, Meaning and Action (pp.89-95); C9. Analyzing multimodality (pp.139-145); D9. Two Perspectives on Multimodality (pp.220-230). Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva  

Wk3 Lecture: Media

1. Williams R (1976/1984) ‘communication’ (p.72-73) ‘media’ and ‘mediation’ (p. 203-207) and ‘culture’ (p. 87-93) in Keywords. A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. OUP 
2. Kress G and van Leeuwen T (2001) Multimodal Discourse: The modes and media of contemporary communication London: Arnold. Introduction pp.1-23  Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva  
3. Madianou M. (2015) Polymedia and Ethnography: Understanding the Social in Social Media. Social Media + Society Apr-Jun 1-3

Wk4 Seminar: Semiotic and Media Landscapes

1. Adami, Elisabetta et al. (2020) PanMeMic Manifesto: Making meaning in the Covid-19 pandemic and the future of social interaction. Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacies no 273. https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/8699/files/2020/08/WP273_Adami_et_al_on_behalf_of_the_PanMe.pdf  

Wk5 Lecture: Culture

• Holliday, A. 1999. Small Cultures. Applied Linguistics. 20 (2), pp.237-264.  
• Agar, M. H. 2006. Culture: can you take it anywhere? International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 5(2), pp.1-12.  

Wk6 Lecture: Intercultural

• Holliday, A. 2016. Difference and awareness in cultural travel: negotiating blocks and threads. Language and Intercultural Communication. 16 (3), pp.318-331.  
• Holliday, A. 2018 A Grammar of culture: a brief description. http://adrianholliday.com/articles/  

Wk9 Lecture: Multilingualism and Translanguaging

• Horner, Kristine & Weber, Jean-Jacques (2018) Introducing Multilingualism: A social approach. 2nd edn. London: Routledge. Chapter 3, Chapter 7.  

• Otheguy, Ricardo, Garcia, Ofelia & Reid, Wallis (2015) ‘Clarifying translanguaging and deconstructng named languages: A perspective from linguistics’. Applied Linguistics Review 6: 281-307.  
• Li Wei & Zhu, Hua (2013) ‘Translanguaging identities and ideologies: Creating transnational space through flexible multilingual practice amongst Chinese university students in the UK’. Applied Linguistics 34: 516-35.  
• Pennycook, Alistair & Otsuji, Emi (2014) ‘Metrolingual multitasking and spatial repertoires: “Pizza mo two minutes coming”’ Journal of Sociolinguistics 18: 161-84.  

Further Reading on Linguistic Landscapes

Introductory

• Horner & Weber (2018) Introducing Multilingualism: A social approach. 2nd edn. London: Routledge. Chapter 16
• Shohamy, Elana (2006) Language Policy: Hidden agendas and new approaches. Abingdon: Routledge, 110-134.

Good overview

• Van Mensel, Luk, Vanderbroucke, Mieke, & Blackwood, Robert (2017) ‘Linguistic Landscapes’. In Garcia, Ofelia, Flores, Nelson & Spotti, Massimiliano (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 423-450.

More complex

• Jaworski, Adam and Thurlow, Crispin (2010) ‘Introducing semiotic landscapes’ In Jaworski, Adam and Thurlow, Crispin (eds) Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space. London: Continuum, 1-40.

Some other chapters from the Oxford Handbook on Language and Society may also be useful to your assignments – available electronically via the library. Note that some of them are quite challenging to read!

Wk10 Lecture: English for International Communication

• Sowden Colin (2012) ELF on a mushroom: the overnight growth in English as a Lingua Franca, ELT Journal 66/1, 89-96  
• Carrington Vicky & Allan Luke (1997) Literacy and Bourdieu's Sociological Theory: A Reframing,  Language and Education, 11:2, 96-112  

Wk14 Lecture: Digital Spaces

• Jones, R. & C. Hafner (2012). Online Cultures and Intercultural Communication (Ch.8). In R. Jones & C. Hafner, Understanding Digital Literacies: A Practical Introduction, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 115-128.  
• Gee, J. P. (2005). Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces: From The Age of Mythology to today’s schools. In D. Barton & K. Tusting (Eds.), Beyond communities of practice: Language, power and social context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 214-232. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva   
• Jones, R. & C. Hafner (2012). Mediated Me (Ch.1). In R. Jones & C. Hafner, Understanding Digital Literacies: A Practical Introduction, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 1-15.  

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Further readings:

• Jones, Hafner. 2012. Understanding digital literacies : a practical introduction ISBN: 9780415673167 (hbk.); 041567316X (hbk.); 9780415673150 (pbk.); 0415673151 (pbk.), London & New York: Routledge, pp. 1-15; 115-128.  
• Jenkins, Jennifer (2006). Current Perspectives on Teaching World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca. In TESOL quarterly. ISSN: 0039-8322 40/1, pp. 157-181.  

This list was last updated on 01/12/2020