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colleagues,</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We are
very pleased to invite PhD students and colleagues to a workshop
with Dr Max Spotti, Associate Professor in Digital Literacy and
Ethnography at the Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg
University: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘</span>Uncovering
the dynamic and multilayered sociolinguistic landscape of a
mittel-European multilingual contact zone: A reflexive approach to
Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis carried out by primary
school children’</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Wednesday,
14 October 2026, 10:00–12:00</span></b><span
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of Vienna</span></b></p>
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Wien, Hauptgebäude, Universitätsring 1</span></p>
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Seiteneingang, Stiege 9, 2. Zwischengeschoss, <b>Seminarraum 2</b></span></p>
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<p
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are limited and registration is required. Please register <a
href="https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/de/p/13b9586223a8e2441e01690da753ad02-638331"
style=""><span style="font-weight: normal;">via t</span><span
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to find us: </span></b><span
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use the left side entrance of the Main Building and take
Staircase 9 to the 2nd mezzanine floor. After exiting the lift,
turn left and go through two glass doors. Seminar Room 2 is on
the left-hand side.</span></p>
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workshop is open to PhD students and colleagues, and we warmly
encourage anyone interested in the topic to join us. Please also
feel free to pass this along to anybody you know who might be
interested.</span></p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ABSTRACT: </span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i>Uncovering
the dynamic and multilayered sociolinguistic landscape of a
mittel-European multilingual contact zone: A reflexive
approach to Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis carried
out by primary school children</i></b></p>
<p
style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Ethnographic
Linguistic Landscape Analysis (ELLA) has been used as a refreshing
approach to understanding bottom-up sociolinguistic practices in
several socio-cultural arenas. Against this background, the
citizen science project at the core of this ethnographic workshop,
called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Taal
Detectives,</i></b> part of the<span
class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Alle Scholen Samen
Verzamelen</i></b>initiative, serves as our case in point.
Through phone-mediated instruction, primary school pupils (aged
8-12) across the Netherlands collected 3.580 pictures documenting
the Linguistic Landscape around their schools. They then performed
an in-depth analysis using the MODIPLAC model by
Kerschhofer-Puhalo (2021) on a subset of 780 pictures, in which
they were asked to reflect on the diverse roles languages play in
their environment. Thanks to our young ethnographers and their
hard work, the data collected formed the basis for an in-depth
exploration of the Linguistic Landscape of the villages of Tienray
and Swolgen in the Dutch-German border area conducted via a
border-scapes lens (Tufi, 2024) and the Bourdieusian loop
(Blommaert, 2018), which helped enrich the pupils’ data with a map
visualisation and a network analysis of the sociolinguistic
landscape. With this unique ELLA approach, the case study helped
me and the team to reflect on the sociolinguistic landscape of the
two villages as layered and segmented multilingual contact zones
that, on top of their idiosyncratic sociolinguistic peculiarities,
embody an institutional ‘nexus of digital practices’ (Scollon,
2001) for the integration of newly arrived third country
nationals.</p>
<p
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Bourdieusian loop approach to ELLA has benefited the study in two
ways. First, it explores the needed balance between ethnographic
(thick) and quantitative (big) data. Second, by extending the
analysis to digital practices that inevitably shape the
sociolinguistic landscape. The case study also shows how a
reflexive ethnographic method enables the condition of
ethnographic serendipity (Patiño-Santos, 2019). By providing
quantitative information reappreciated through the ethnographic
Bourdieusian loop, a reinterpretation of the children’s data made
it possible to uncover the complexity of socio-cultural spaces in
border zones that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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Max Spotti</span></b></p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Max
Spotti is Associate Professor in Digital Literacy and
Ethnography at Tilburg University. His research spans
sociolinguistic ethnography, language and identity, migration
and asylum, superdiversity, language policy, and digital
literacies.</span></p>
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information: <a
href="https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/m-spotti"
style="" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/m-spotti</a><br>
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look forward to welcoming you to the workshop!</span></b></p>
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Weidl & Khoi Nguyen </span></p>
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Khoi Nguyen, BA MA PhD (er/ihm; he/him)
Universitätsassistent
Universität Wien
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft
Sensengasse 3a
A-1090 Wien
+43 1 4277 41727</pre>
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