School of English, The University of Hong Kong Main Building MB113G 9 May 2011(Monday), 5pm
*No registration is required.
The decentring and deterritorializing forces of global capitalism require us to re-think traditional frameworks for the study of interaction, power and identity. In this talk, I will consider patterns of talk between tourists and hosts, as well as linguistic mediations of tourists' interactions with place (tourist destinations) with a view to make a contribution to a new 'sociolinguistics on the move', replacing the 'sedantrist' approaches focusing on stable, homogenous and idealized speech communities, and capturing interactions and meaning-making between people and places in flux and on the go.
