On this page
  Introduction
  Listing of recent abstracts

  On the other pages
  A treatise on trans
  Postmodernist Bladerunner?
  Editorial 1 from LAIC
  Editorial 2 from LAIC

Introduction

In the pages which follow I've published selected short extracts from various pieces of my writing - some of which are intended to support classes I teach. They represent examples of the theoretical and applied issues which concern me in my academic work and more generally.

Listing of recent abstracts

In addition to these longer extracts (left), I also maintain a listing of abstracts of externally published articles, chapters, papers and other pieces. These are currently recorded as follows:

• language and the internet
• homophobic pejoratives
• communication awareness
• teenagers' social-type labelling and crowds
• young people's ideas about culture
• intercultural awareness and education
• host-tourist perceptions of postcards
• snapshot of teenagers' peer orientations
• young people and new communication technologies
• teenagers in and on communication
• mapping the sociolinguistics of text-messaging
• language ecologies in tourism
• representation of local languages in holiday programmes
• host-tourist roles in holiday programmes
• host-tourist postcard 'communication'
• global communication & inflight magazines
• autobiography and teaching about difference