TPCS is intended to be a genuine ‘working papers’ series. That means that work-in-progress is invited, that papers do not yet require the level of elaboration usually demanded of journal-publishable papers, that good MA dissertations can also be included, and so on. The series is not copyrighted and does not carry an ISSN number, so that publication in TCPS does not preclude publication of more elaborated versions of the same paper in journals.

Please submit your paper to TPCS@uvt.nl.

Editorial group
Jan Blommaert
Piia Varis
Sanna Lehtonen

Papers

Paper 1 - Fie Velghe

Lessons in textspeak from Sexy Chick: Supervernacular literacy in South African Instant and Text Messaging

Paper 2 - Jan Blommaert & Piia Varis

Enough is enough: The heuristics of authenticity in superdiversity

Paper 3 - Sjaak Kroon, Dong Jie & Jan Blommaert

Truly Moving Texts

Paper 4 - Xuan Wang

Which language? Which culture? Which pedagogy? A study of Mandarin Chinese teachers’ perceptions of their professional self in a British school context

Paper 5 - Piia Varis & Massimiliano Spotti

In beloved memory of: Facebook, death and subjectivity

Paper 6 - Fie Velghe

Deprivation, Distance and Connectivity: The adaptation of mobile phone use to a life in Wesbank, a post-Apartheid township in South Africa

Paper 7 - Jinling Li & Kasper Juffermans

On Learning a Language in Transformation: Two final year students’ experiences in Chinese complementary education

Paper 8 - Massimiliano Spotti & Joachim Detailleur

Placing Shibboleths at the Institutional Gate: LADO tests and the construction of asylum seekers' identities

Paper 9 - Jan Blommaert

Supervernaculars and their Dialects

Paper 10 - Jie Dong & Yan Dong

Voicing as an Essential Problem of Communication: Language in education for Chinese immigrant children in globalization

Paper 11 - Karel Arnaut

The human zoo after Abu Ghraib: Performance and subalternity in the 'cam era'

Paper 12 - Kasper Juffermans & Jef Van der Aa

Analysing Voice in Educational Discourses

Paper 13 - Jef Van der Aa

The flag, the coat of arms and me: The interactional architecture of Caribbean children’s classroom stories

Paper 14 - Paul van den Hoven

The rubber bands are broken; opening the ‘punctualized’ European administration of justice

Paper 15 - Peter Broeder, Mia Stokmans & Andrew Wang

Leisure reading among adolescents in Beijing

Paper 16 - Elina Westinen

‘Bättre folk’ – Critical Sociolinguistic Commentary in Finnish Rap Music

Paper 17 - Lauren Zentz

Linguistic biographies, expanding repertoires, and motivation in Global English language education

Paper 18 - Jan Blommaert & Piia Varis

Culture as accent

Paper 19 - Jinling Li, Kasper Juffermans, Sjaak Kroon & Jan Blommaert

Chineseness as a moving target: Intermediate report for the HERA Project, Tilburg Case Study

Paper 20 - Quentin E. Williams

The Enregisterment of English in Rap Braggadocio: a study from English-Afrikaans bilingualism in Cape Town

Paper 21 - Lauren Wagner

Feeling Diasporic

Paper 22 - Jan Blommaert & Fie velghe

Learning a supervernacular: textspeak in a South African township

Paper 23 - Sirpa Leppänen & Päivi Pahta

Finnish Culture and Language Endangered: Language ideological debates on English in the Finnish press from 1995 to 2007

Paper 24 - Jan Blommaert & Ad Backus

Superdiverse Repertoires and the Individual

Paper 25 - Jan Blommaert

The rhetorical world of George W. Bush

Paper 26 - Jan Blommaert

Complexity, accent and conviviality: Concluding comments

Paper 27 - Ad Backus

A usage-based approach to borrowability

Paper 28 - Janus Spindler Møller & J. Normann Jørgensen

Enregisterment among adolescents in superdiverse Copenhagen

Paper 29 - Jan Blommaert

Chronicles of complexity. Ethnography, superdiversity, and linguistic landscapes