Article
The Humanism of the Other in Sociolinguistic Ethnography
Creese A (2024) The Humanism of the Other in Sociolinguistic Ethnography. Applied Linguistics Review. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0086
I am Professor of Linguistic Ethnography in the Faculty of Social Sciences where I also hold the position of Associate Dean for Post Graduate Research.
I gained my PhD in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, a programme which combined sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, classroom discourse, second language acquisition and language policy/planning. These areas continue to shape my study of language in social life. I started my academic career as a research assistant working on others' funded projects. This trajectory has created a commitment to collaborative research, particularly in large diverse, interdisciplinary research teams. Over the last four years I have served as the principal investigator on two research projects. The first, 'Translation and translanguaging: Investigating linguistic and cultural transformations in superdiverse wards in four UK cities' (TLANG) (), was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). This project involved 6 collaborating universities and eight non- academic stakeholders, comprising 33 team members. The project’s overarching question was: ‘How do people communicate in contexts of linguistic and social diversity?’. The second project, also funded by the AHRC through its Global Challenges Research Fund, investigated the potential of translanguaging as a decolonizing pedagogy in South African university classrooms. The project was a collaboration with colleagues at the University of Cape Town ().
I am interested in recruiting doctoral students in the following areas: multilingualism, every day interactions in social life, language and ideology.
My disciplinary home is interpretive sociolinguistics, and I draw on theories and methodologies from linguistic anthropology to investigate language in social life. My recent work is on heteroglossia, translanguaging and superdiversity as ideological orientations to social and linguistic diversity. My research draws on empirical data gained through ethnographic observations and audio and video recordings of everyday interactions. I have collected data in schools, markets, libraries, sport halls, community centres and universities. I work with a range of stakeholders beyond the academy, including arts, heritage, cultural and education organizations.
Ethics and Aesthetics of Encountering the Other: New Frameworks for Living with Difference
PI: Professor Angela Creese
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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GCRF Development Award: Languaging in post-conflict zones: Educating for success in Colombia, Lebanon and South Africa
PI: Professor Angela Creese
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Languaging in Times of Change
PI: Professor Angela Creese
Funded by: Delegates - Conferences
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Article
The Humanism of the Other in Sociolinguistic Ethnography
Creese A (2024) The Humanism of the Other in Sociolinguistic Ethnography. Applied Linguistics Review. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0086
Article
Blackledge A & Creese A (2022) The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research. Journal of Sociolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12546
Article
Recontextualisation and advocacy in the translation zone
Blackledge A & Creese A (2021) Recontextualisation and advocacy in the translation zone. Text and Talk, 41 (1), pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2019-0123
Project Report
Creese A, Blackledge A, Usma Wilches J, Amin T & Madiba M (2021) GCRF Development Award: Languaging in post-conflict zones: Educating for success in Colombia, Lebanon and South Africa Final Report. AHRC/GCRF. https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT005408%2F1
Monograph
Interpretations - An Ethnographic Drama
Blackledge A & Creese A (2021) Interpretations - An Ethnographic Drama. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Article
Interaction ritual and the body in a city meat market
Blackledge A & Creese A (2020) Interaction ritual and the body in a city meat market. Social Semiotics, 30 (1), pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2018.1521355
Book Chapter
Blackledge A & Creese A (2020) Heteroglossia. In: Tusting K (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Ethnography. Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics. Routledge, pp. 97-108. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Linguistic-Ethnography/Tusting/p/book/9781138938168
Article
Stereotypes and chronotopes: The peasant and the cosmopolitan in narratives about migration
Creese A & Blackledge A (2020) Stereotypes and chronotopes: The peasant and the cosmopolitan in narratives about migration. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 24 (4), pp. 419-440. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12376
Article
Translanguaging and Public Service Encounters: Language Learning in the Library
Creese A & Blackledge A (2019) Translanguaging and Public Service Encounters: Language Learning in the Library. The Modern Language Journal, 103 (4), pp. 800-814. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12601
Article
In conversation: translating cultures
Spadaro B, Burdett C, Creese A, Forsdick C & Phipps A (2019) In conversation: translating cultures. Translator, 25 (4), pp. 420-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2019.1735211
Authored Book
Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography
Blackledge A & Creese A (2019) Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Article
Translanguaging and translation: the construction of social difference across city spaces
Creese A, Blackledge A & Hu R (2018) Translanguaging and translation: the construction of social difference across city spaces. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 21 (7), pp. 841-852. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2017.1323445
Book Chapter
Blackledge A & Creese A (2017) Translanguaging in mobility. In: Canagarajah S (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 31-46. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315754512
Article
Blackledge A & Creese A (2017) Translanguaging and the body. International Journal of Multilingualism, 14 (3), pp. 250-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2017.1315809
Book Chapter
Translanguaging as an everyday practice
Creese A (2017) Translanguaging as an everyday practice. In: Paulsrud B, Rosén J, Straszer B & Wedin ? (eds.) New Perspectives on Translanguaging and Education. Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 108. Bristol: Channel View Publications, pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.21832/PAULSR7814
Article
The 'other woman' in a mother and daughter relationship: The case of Mami Ji
Creese A & Blackledge A (2017) The 'other woman' in a mother and daughter relationship: The case of Mami Ji. Language in Society, 46 (2), pp. 185-206. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404516000993
Book Chapter
Everyday encounters in the marketplace: Translanguaging in the super-diverse city
Blackledge A, Creese A & Hu R (2017) Everyday encounters in the marketplace: Translanguaging in the super-diverse city. In: De Fina A, Ikizoglu D & Wegner J (eds.) Diversity and Super-Diversity: Sociocultural linguistic perspectives. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Law Center, pp. 97-116. http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/diversity-and-super-diversity
Book Chapter
Ethical issues in linguistic ethnography: Balancing the micro and the macro
Copland F & Creese A (2016) Ethical issues in linguistic ethnography: Balancing the micro and the macro. In: De Costa P (ed.) Ethics in applied linguistics research: Language researcher narratives. Second Language Acquisition Research Series. New York: Routledge, pp. 161-178. https://www.routledge.com/Ethics-in-Applied-Linguistics-Research-Language-Researcher-Narratives/De-Costa/p/book/9780415739061; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315816937
Book Chapter
Reflexivity in team ethnography: Using researcher vignettes
Creese A, Takhi JK & Blackledge A (2016) Reflexivity in team ethnography: Using researcher vignettes. In: Martin-Jones M & Martin D (eds.) Researching Multilingualism: Critical and ethnographic perspectives. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 203-214. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315405346
Book Chapter
A linguistic ethnography of identity: Adopting a heteroglossic frame
Blackledge A & Creese A (2016) A linguistic ethnography of identity: Adopting a heteroglossic frame. In: Preece S (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 272-288. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315669816
Article
The structure of everyday narrative in a city market: An ethnopoetics approach
Blackledge A, Creese A & Hu R (2016) The structure of everyday narrative in a city market: An ethnopoetics approach. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 20 (5), pp. 654-676. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12213
Article
Dewilde J & Creese A (2016) Discursive Shadowing in Linguistic Ethnography. Situated Practices and Circulating Discourses in Multilingual Schools. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 47 (3), pp. 329-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12158
Book Chapter
Emblems of identities in four European urban settings
Blackledge A & Creese A (2015) Emblems of identities in four European urban settings. In: Nortier J & Svendsen BA (eds.) Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century: Linguistic Practices across Urban Spaces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 167-182. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-youth-and-identity-in-the-21st-century/C1D52D2D7A8B016233BEE9192F8885FE; https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139061896.012
Book Chapter
'A typical gentleman': Metapragmatic stereotypes as systems of distinction
Blackledge A & Creese A (2015) 'A typical gentleman': Metapragmatic stereotypes as systems of distinction. In: Arnaut K, Blommaert J, Rampton B & Spotti M (eds.) Language and Superdiversity. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 155-173. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315730240
Article
Translanguaging and identity in educational settings
Creese A & Blackledge A (2015) Translanguaging and identity in educational settings. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 35, pp. 20-35. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190514000233
Article
Voice, register and social position
Blackledge A, Creese A & Kaur Takhi J (2014) Voice, register and social position. Multilingua, 33 (5-6), pp. 485-504. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2014-0025
Article
Creese A, Blackledge A & Takhi JK (2014) The ideal 'Native Speaker' teacher: Negotiating authenticity and legitimacy in the language classroom. Modern Language Journal, 98 (4), pp. 937-951. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12148
Book Chapter
Multilingual teachers’ resources in three different contexts: empowering learning
Conteh J, Copland F & Creese A (2014) Multilingual teachers’ resources in three different contexts: empowering learning. In: Conteh J & Meier G (eds.) The Multilingual Turn in Languages Education: Opportunities and Challenges. New Perspectives on Language and Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 158-178. http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781783092222
Book Chapter
Language, superdiversity and education
Blackledge A, Creese A & Takhi JK (2013) Language, superdiversity and education. In: de Saint-Georges I & Weber J (eds.) Multilingualism and Multimodality. The Future of Education Research. The Future of Education Research, 3. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, pp. 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-266-2_4
Book Chapter
Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia in practice
Blackledge A, Creese A & Takhi JK (2013) Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia in practice. In: May S (ed.) The Multilingual Turn: Implications for SLA, TESOL, and Bilingual Education. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 191-215. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203113493
Article
Voice and Meaning-Making in Team Ethnography
Creese A & Blackledge A (2012) Voice and Meaning-Making in Team Ethnography. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 43 (3), pp. 306-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1492.2012.01182.x
Article
Hornberger NH & Creese A (2012) A Note from the Editors. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 43 (2), pp. 127-127. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1492.2012.01164.x
Book Chapter
Negotiation of identities across times and spaces
Blackledge A & Creese A (2012) Negotiation of identities across times and spaces. In: Gardner S & Martin-Jones M (eds.) Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 82-94. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203143179
Book Chapter
Pedagogy and bilingual pupils in primary schools: certainties from applied linguistics
Creese A (2011) Pedagogy and bilingual pupils in primary schools: certainties from applied linguistics. In: Ellis S & McCartney E (eds.) Applied Linguistics and Primary School Teaching. Cambridge: Cambride University Press, pp. 186-198. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921605.019
Book Chapter
Creese A & Blackledge A (2011) Ideologies and interactions in multilingual education: What can an ecological approach tell us about bilingual pedagogy?. In: Helot C & O'Laoire M (eds.) Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom: Pedagogy of the Possible - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. Bristol: Changing Childbirth Implimentation Team, pp. 3-21.
Book Chapter
Pride, profit and distinction: Negotiations across time and space in community language education
Blackledge A & Creese A (2011) Pride, profit and distinction: Negotiations across time and space in community language education. In: Duchêne A & Heller M (eds.) Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 116-141. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203155868
Article
Creese A, Blackledge A, Bara? T, Bhatt A, Hamid S, Wei L, Lytra V, Martin P, Wu C & Ya?cio?lu D (2011) Separate and flexible bilingualism in complementary schools: Multiple language practices in interrelationship. Journal of Pragmatics, 43 (5), pp. 1196-1208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.10.006
Book Chapter
Making local practices globally relevant in researching multilingual education
Creese A (2011) Making local practices globally relevant in researching multilingual education. In: Hult FM & King KA (eds.) Educational Linguistics in Practice: Applying the Local Globally and the Global Locally. Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. Bristol: Channel View Publications, pp. 41-55. http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781847693525
Article
Content-focused classrooms and learning English: How teachers collaborate
Creese A (2010) Content-focused classrooms and learning English: How teachers collaborate. Theory into Practice, 49 (2), pp. 99-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841003626494
Book Chapter
Teaching approaches in two-teacher classrooms
Creese A (2010) Teaching approaches in two-teacher classrooms. In: Leung C & Creese A (eds.) English as an Additional Language: Approaches to Teaching Linguistic Minority Students. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 58-74. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446251454.n5
Article
Towards a sociolinguistics of superdiversity
Creese A & Blackledge A (2010) Towards a sociolinguistics of superdiversity. Zeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft, 13 (4), pp. 549-572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-010-0159-y
Article
Translanguaging in the bilingual classroom: A pedagogy for learning and teaching?
Creese A & Blackledge A (2010) Translanguaging in the bilingual classroom: A pedagogy for learning and teaching?. Modern Language Journal, 94 (1), pp. 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2009.00986.x
Book Chapter
Multilingual researcher identities: Interpreting linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms
Creese A, Bhatt A & Martin P (2009) Multilingual researcher identities: Interpreting linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. In: Miller J, Kostogriz A & Gearon M (eds.) Culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms: new dilemmas for teachers. Bristol: Channel View Publications, pp. 215-233.
Article
Folk stories and social identification in multilingual classrooms
Creese A, Wu C & Blackledge A (2009) Folk stories and social identification in multilingual classrooms. Linguistics and Education, 20 (4), pp. 350-365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2009.10.002
Article
Blackledge A & Creese A (2009) 'Because tumi Bangali': Inventing and disinventing the national in multilingual communities in the UK. Ethnicities, 9 (4), pp. 451-476. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796809345605
Article
Contesting 'Language' as 'Heritage': Negotiation of identities in late modernity
Blackledge A, Creese A, Bara? T, Bhatt A, Hamid S, Wei L, Lytra V, Martin P, Wu C & Ya?cio?lu D (2008) Contesting 'Language' as 'Heritage': Negotiation of identities in late modernity. Applied Linguistics, 29 (4), pp. 533-554. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amn024
Article
Fieldnotes in team ethnography: Researching complementary schools
Creese A, Bhatt A, Bhojani N & Martin P (2008) Fieldnotes in team ethnography: Researching complementary schools. Qualitative Research, 8 (2), pp. 197-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794107087481
Article
Multicultural, heritage and learner identities in complementary schools
Creese A, Bhatt A, Bhojani N & Martin P (2006) Multicultural, heritage and learner identities in complementary schools. Language and Education, 20 (1), pp. 23-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500780608668708
Article
Managing bilingual interaction in a Gujarati complementary school in Leicester
Martin P, Bhatt A, Bhojani N & Creese A (2006) Managing bilingual interaction in a Gujarati complementary school in Leicester. Language and Education, 20 (1), pp. 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500780608668707
Article
Interaction in complementary school contexts: Developing identities of choice - An introduction
Creese A & Martin P (2006) Interaction in complementary school contexts: Developing identities of choice - An introduction. Language and Education, 20 (1), pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500780608668706
Article
Arkoudis S & Creese A (2006) Introduction. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 9 (4), pp. 411-414. https://doi.org/10.2167/beb341.0
Article
Supporting talk? Partnership teachers in classroom interaction
Creese A (2006) Supporting talk? Partnership teachers in classroom interaction. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 9 (4), pp. 434-453. https://doi.org/10.2167/beb340.0
Book Chapter
Creese A (2005) Mediating allegations of racism in a multiethnic London school: What speech communities and communities of practice can tell us about discourse and power. In: Barton D & Tusting K (eds.) Beyond Communities of Practice: Language Power and Social Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 55-76. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610554.005
Article
Is this content-based language teaching?
Creese A (2005) Is this content-based language teaching?. Linguistics and Education, 16 (2), pp. 188-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2006.01.007
Book Chapter
Bilingual teachers in mainstream secondary school classrooms: Using Turkish for curriculum learning
Creese A (2004) Bilingual teachers in mainstream secondary school classrooms: Using Turkish for curriculum learning. In: Brutt-Griffler J & Varghese MM (eds.) Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy. Bristol: Channel View Publications, pp. 97-111.
Book Chapter
Gendered learning identity in two modalities of pedagogic discourse
Daniels H, Creese A, Hey V & Leonard D (2004) Gendered learning identity in two modalities of pedagogic discourse. In: Muller J, Davies B & Morais A (eds.) Reading Bernstein, Researching Bernstein. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 123-136. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203461877
Article
Creese A (2002) The discursive construction of power in teacher partnerships: Language and subject specialists in mainstream schools. TESOL Quarterly, 36 (4), pp. 597-616. https://doi.org/10.2307/3588242
Article
Gender and learning: Equity, equality and pedagogy
Daniels H, Creese A, Hey V, Leonard D & Smith M (2001) Gender and learning: Equity, equality and pedagogy. Support for Learning, 16 (3), pp. 112-116. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.00201
Article
Evaluating teacher support teams in secondary schools: Supporting teachers for SEN and other needs
Creese A, Norwich B & Daniels H (2000) Evaluating teacher support teams in secondary schools: Supporting teachers for SEN and other needs. Research Papers in Education, 15 (3), pp. 307-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520050128786
Article
The Role of the Language Specialist in Disciplinary Teaching: In Search of A Subject?
Creese A (2000) The Role of the Language Specialist in Disciplinary Teaching: In Search of A Subject?. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 21 (6), pp. 451-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434630008666417
Article
The prevalence and usefulness of collaborative teacher groups for SEN: Results of a national survey
Creese A, Norwich B & Daniels H (1998) The prevalence and usefulness of collaborative teacher groups for SEN: Results of a national survey. Support for Learning, 13 (3), pp. 109-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.00070