Figure of personhood, or set of indexicals that are linked with a performable person type,
occupies a key role in contemporary metapragmatic analysis. But how can the concept be …

In this article, I argue for a chronotopic-scalar system of images and resolutions in the
analysis of language use in general and multilingual practices in particular. Drawing on data …

In Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior, Farzad
Karimzad and Lydia Catedral investigate migrants' polycentric identities, imaginations …

In recent years, the intersections between, or entanglements of, local action and translocal
patterns gained renewed interest in sociolinguistics. Received distinctions such as …

With the spread of English in Bahrain,'chicken nugget'emerged as a term aimed at English-
dominant, typically private-school-educated youth. Drawing on data from Bahraini youth, I …

This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans
promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of …

This article examines the pragmatics of Finnish municipality slogans by focussing on
slogans that include a toponym, that is, a place name other than that of the municipality. We …

This paper explores how local linguistic resources can transform into indexes of
transnational subcultures. Drawing on indexicality and chronotopic frame theory, we …

The paper identifies the similarities and differences between fairy tale and rap narratives
from the viewpoint of their specificity in space. Three spaces with their structuring topoi and …

This case study investigates a migrant adult's identity work in playful talk occurring
spontaneously in a classroom for Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for …