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    • Bark, smoke and pray: multilingual Rastafarian-herb sellers in a busy subway 

      Williams, Quentin (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      This paper is an analysis of how multilingual Rastafarian-herbalists organize multilingual and multimodal interactions in a subway. The rationale has been to understand the practice of multilingual repertoires by multilingual ...
    • Battling the race: Stylizing language and coproducing whiteness and colouredness in a freestyle rap performance 

      Williams, Quentin; Stroud, Christopher (American Antrhopological Association, 2015)
      In the last 19 years of post-apartheid South African democracy, race remains an enduring and familiar trope, a point of certainty amid the messy ambiguities of transformation. In the present article, we explore the ...
    • Multilingualism in transformative spaces: contact and conviviality 

      Williams, Quentin; Stroud, Christopher (Springer Verlag, 2013)
      South Africa is a highly mobile country characterized by historical displacements and contemporary mobilities, both social and demographic. Getting to grips with diversity, dislocation, relocation and anomie, as well as ...
    • Multilingualism remixed: Sampling, braggadocio and the stylisation of local voice 

      Williams, Quentin; Stroud, Christopher (Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University., 2013)
      Among the many challenges posed by contexts of social transformation and extensive mobility is the question of how multilingual voice may carry across media, modalities and context. In this paper, we suggest that one ...
    • Rastafarian-herbalists' enregisterment of multilingual voices in an informal marketplace 

      Williams, Quentin (Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University., 2016)
      What do we mean when we talk about "multilingual voice" in the post-apartheid sociolinguistic context of South Africa? In this paper, I explore this question by reporting on an ethnographic fieldwork project that involved ...
    • Space/place matters 

      Milani, Tommaso M.; Williams, Quentin; Stroud, Christopher (CMDR 2017, 2017)
      This special issue of Multilingual Margins on the theme of “Space/ place matters” has its origin in a doctoral summer school organised in December 2016 by the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Multilingualism ...
    • Talking parts, talking back: Fleshing out linguistic citizenship 

      Stroud, Christopher; Williams, Quentin; Bontiya, Ndimphiwe (UNICAMP, 2020)
      These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of a rampant global neoliberal and ...
    • Youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture: a metapragmatic analysis 

      Williams, Quentin (Equinox publishing, 2016)
      This paper describes the practice of youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture, in an online social media space and an advertising space. Based on a multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork study of youth ...