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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>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 <i>Reconstituting Identity and Agency Recognition,
Multimodality, and Communicative Disruption after Acquired Brain
Injury</i>. </p>
<p>The talk is hosted by the Doctoral School of Philological and
Cultural Studies and open for everyone interested.</p>
<p>It will take place at the Department of Linguistics, Sensengasse
3a, Seminarraum 2 (1st floor) at 16:00.</p>
<p><b><span style="" lang="EN-US">Abstract</span></b>
</p>
<p><span style="" lang="EN-US">This paper examines how identity and
agency are reconfigured following acquired brain </span>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.
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<p><b><span style="" lang="EN-US">Melissa Moyer</span></b><span
style="" lang="EN-US"> 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.</span></p>
<p>All info here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ds-philkult.univie.ac.at/news-detail/news/guest-lecture-reconstituting-identity-and-agency/">https://ds-philkult.univie.ac.at/news-detail/news/guest-lecture-reconstituting-identity-and-agency/</a></p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Jonas Hassemer</p>
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signature-switch-id="8b7ea7f0-5ebd-46b5-a353-513bb8de7ce6" cols="72">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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://language-and-work-group.webnode.page/">https://language-and-work-group.webnode.page/</a></pre>
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