Combining Socio-culturally rooted D/discourse analysis with Sociolinguistic Ethnography: Examples drawn from the field of education

Description

During my lecture, I tackle those 'healthy scientific obsessions' of mine that have been trotting along with me throughout the years, these being interactional rituals, identities, and power.

In order to do so, I first expose what I understand under the notion of 'Discourse with a capital D' and the notion of 'discourse with a small d' and how these notions of 'D/discourse' (Gee 1999) contribute to the construction of discourse models, which in my work, I word as 'informal theories of mind' (Spotti 2007) that human beings use to make sense of the world around them.

I then turn to how the above-mentioned tools can be used to investigate ethnographically how identities are shaped in interactions that take place in educational environments like a school classroom, leading to certain identities being included and others being excluded from the educational equation of who 'truly belongs' to a given nation.

Period	2025
Held at	University of Kelaniya, Department of Linguistics, Sri Lanka
Degree of Recognition	International