Stephan Meyer

University of Basel | UNIBAS · Language Centre

How do written and other signs shape our educational spaces and practices; and how, in turn, are these written and other signs shaped by the educational spaces and practices they inhabit? Building on inquiries into the linguistic landscapes of public spaces, this volume addresses these questions and thereby further advances the educational turn in...

Edited Volume on Translanguaging as Everyday Practice

Multilingual signs in the linguistic landscape raise several questions about everyday translingual practices. We addressed the questions: What translingual practices do recipients mobilise to negotiate the linguistic meanings of unofficial multilingual signs that constitute the linguistic landscape of a commercial and residential suburb (Kleinbasel...

This article addresses the questions: why is the development of conversational competence important within higher education? And how might this goal be pursued? We offer answers that may aid a broad range of stakeholders (language learners, course designers, lecturers, language development managers, and policy makers) in thinking through these issu...

Abstract Societies – such as Switzerland – that address the issue of multilingualism by officially recognising national languages cannot avoid the remaining question: what about the non-official languages? Our contribution addresses this question by exploring one site where such non-official languages attain rare visibility in the public sphere, na...

Novice writers and writing instructors in academic and professional settings often pine for guides that will deliver definitive rules which offer certitude. Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century does so – to a large extent. That The Sense of Style cannot find rules in reason for everything is...

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The relationships between the internationalisation of higher education and language are still poorly understood. We foreground the perspective of students in order to advance our understanding of these interrelations in the context of the consolidation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Accordingly, we propose gathering answers to the qu...

Link to publisher https://www.uhawaiipress.com/p-4273-9780824830045.aspx Interviewees: Breyten Breytenbach, Dennis Brutus, Valentine Cascarino, Vanitha Chetty, Wilfred Cibane, Greig Coetzee, J. M. Coetzee, Paul Faber, David Goldblatt, Stephen Gray, Dorian Haarhoff, Rayda Jacobs, Elsa Joubert, K. Limakatso Kendall, Ester Lee, Doris Lessing, Sindiwe...

Biography 24.3 (2001) 639-644 In this commendable, broad canvas of colonial and postcolonial women's autobiography, Gillian Whitlock invites the reader to participate in a "process of connected reading" (203), which consists of "a search for contiguities" and "rogue connections" (204). Consequently, texts are brought together in ways which transgre...