MultiLing Winter School 2017

January 30 – February 3, 20 PhD students from 17 different universities attended MultiLing’s winter school. Through their week in Oslo, the participants got to explore the use of methods for collecting linguistic ethnographic data with a specific focus on language, youth, and identities in culturally and linguistically heterogeneous urban spaces.

Group photo of winter school participants

Photo: Nadia Frantsen

The topic for this year’s course was language, youth, and identity, explored through ethnographic methodologies. The PhD students engaged in the practical issues of conducting ethnographic fieldwork: of planning and collecting data, of doing digital ethnography, and of turning data into ethnographic text. The course had three themes :

  • Ethnography as (a set of) methods (for researching identity)

  • Language and identity: ways of analysing identities in linguistic ethnographic data

  • Digital ethnography – youth practices and identities

 

The program consisted of both lectures and literature and data seminars. Lectures were given by Professor Rickard Jonsson (University of Stockholm), Professor Unn Røyneland (MultiLing, UiO), Professor Bente Ailin Svendsen (MultiLing, UiO), Associate Professor Elisabeth Staksrud (Department of Media and Communication, UiO), and Postdoctoral fellow Kristin Vold Lexander (MultiLing, UiO), all experienced and leading researchers in the field. Apart from the lectures, plenty of time was devoted to analysing data from the participants’ own ongoing research projects and to relate these data to the presented theoretical perspectives.

It has been a very inspiring week. MultiLing is grateful to all the participants who engaged in great conversations and discussions!

More photos from MultiLing Winter School 2017

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By Kristin Myklestu
Published Feb. 3, 2017 10:53 AM - Last modified Feb. 21, 2020 9:40 AM