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Ethnography and modern languages
(Liverpool University Press, 2019-01-07) Wells, Naomi; Forsdick, Charles; Bradley, Jessica; Burdett, Charles; Burns, Jennifer; Demossier, Marion; Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Huc-Hepher, Saskia; Jordan, Shirley; Pitman, Thea; Wall, Georgia
While rarely explicitly recognized in our disciplinary frameworks, the openness and curiosity on which Modern Languages in the UK is founded are, in many ways, ethnographic impulses. Ethnographic theories and practices can be transformative in relation to the undergraduate curriculum, providing an unparalleled model for experiential and holistic approaches to language and cultural learning. As a form of emplaced and embodied knowledge production, ethnography promotes greater reflexivity on our geographical and historical locations as researchers, and on the languages and cultures through which we engage. An ethnographic sensitivity encourages an openness to less hierarchical and hegemonic forms of knowledge, particularly when consciously seeking to invert the traditional colonial ethnographic project and envision instead more participatory and collaborative models of engagement. Modern Languages scholars are at the same time ideally placed to challenge a monolingual mindset and an insensitivity to language-related questions in existing ethnographic research located in cognate disciplines. For Modern Languages to embrace ethnography with credibility, we propose a series of recommendations to mobilize these new research and professional agendas.
Meaning and methodology: An introduction to ethnography with Professor Marion Demossier and Dr Margaret Hills de Zárate
(University of Warwick, 2018-06-07) Wall, Georgia; Demossier, Marion; Hills de Zárate, Margaret
Addressing scholars new to ethnography in an interdisciplinary perspective, Prof. Marion Demossier and Dr. Margaret Hills de Zárate offer some reflections on the broader opportunities and implications of ethnographic approaches as a search not for truth, or rules, but for meaning in context. The authors discuss the opportunities and challenges of ethnography as opposed to other forms of data collection, reflexivity, the relationship between ethnography and text, and provide a range of further references.