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Ode to the city
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- 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
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781800415164
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters, (16 March 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 56
- Weight
- 186 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 245 x 174 x 5 mm
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