[PLing] Guest Lecture by Melissa Moyer (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

[Jonas Hassemer]

Dear colleagues,

I have missed inserting the date before hitting the send button:

Tuesday, 09.06.2026 | 16:00 – 17:30 | SR 2 (1st floor), Sensengasse 3a

Guest lecture by Melissa Moyer (Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de 
Germanística, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) on /Reconstituting 
Identity and Agency Recognition, Multimodality, and Communicative 
Disruption after Acquired Brain Injury/.

Apologies & looking forward to seeing you there,

Best wishes,

Jonas Hassemer


Am 01.06.2026 um 10:08 schrieb Jonas Hassemer:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I'd like to invite you to a guest lecture by Melissa Moyer 
> (Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística, Universitat 
> Autònoma de Barcelona) on /Reconstituting Identity and Agency 
> Recognition, Multimodality, and Communicative Disruption after 
> Acquired Brain Injury/.
>
> The talk is hosted by the Doctoral School of Philological and Cultural 
> Studies and open for everyone interested.
>
> It will take place at the Department of Linguistics, Sensengasse 3a, 
> Seminarraum 2 (1st floor) at 16:00.
>
> *Abstract*
>
> This paper examines how identity and agency are reconfigured following 
> acquired brain injury (ABI), focusing on speakers with dysarthria. 
> Drawing on a two-and-a-half-year ethnographic study, it analyzes 
> multimodal interaction, narrative practices, and material environments 
> to show that identity and agency are not individual properties but 
> distributed across semiotic arrangements involving bodies, artefacts, 
> technologies, and interlocutors. However, such distributed 
> configurations remain fragile within social and institutional contexts 
> that privilege linguistic competence. The paper advances the concept 
> of reconstituted agency to account for how these arrangements are 
> stabilized and extended across contexts, enabling identities to 
> persist over time. It also considers how collective identification can 
> extend these processes beyond interaction. In doing so, the paper 
> develops a theoretical account of how agency is reorganized from 
> distributed to reconstituted forms under conditions of communicative 
> disruption.
>
> *Melissa Moyer*is Professor of English Philology at the Universitat 
> Autònoma de Barcelona. She recently held the Mercè Rodoreda Chair at 
> the Graduate Center, CUNY where she taught a seminar on Sites of 
> Multilingualism: A Critical Ethnographic Approach on contexts of 
> multilingualism in Catalonia from a critical ethnographic focus. Her 
> contributions to the study of bilingualism and multilingualism include 
> work on multilingualism in Gibraltar, and London, and communication in 
> various institutional sites in Catalunya dedicated to health, tourism, 
> and job recruitment. Her publications include Language, Migration and 
> Social Inequalities (2013) co-edited with Alexandre Duchêne and Celia 
> Roberts, a special issue on Language, Mobility and Work in the Journal 
> of Language and Intercultural Communication (2018), her book on 
> methods The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and 
> Multilingualism (2008), co-edited with Li Wei, and which received the 
> 2009 book prize by the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Her 
> current areas of interest include language, identity, and disability.
>
> All info here: 
> https://ds-philkult.univie.ac.at/news-detail/news/guest-lecture-reconstituting-identity-and-agency/
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jonas Hassemer
>
> Dr. Jonas Hassemer (he, him)
> University Assistant Postdoc in Applied Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna
> Sensengasse 3a
> A-1090 Vienna
> +43-1-4277-41714
>
> https://language-and-work-group.webnode.page/
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