The UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum (UKLEF) a Special Interest Group of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). It aims to bring together researchers conducting linguistic ethnography in the UK and abroad, to explore a range of past and current work, to identify key issues, and to engage in methodologically and theoretically well-tuned debate.

Linguistic ethnography generally holds that language and social life are mutually shaping, and that close analysis of situated language use can provide both fundamental and distinctive insights into the mechanisms and dynamics of social and cultural production in everyday activity. (read more in the UKLEF discussion paper).

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Angela Creese wrote a chapter on Linguistic Ethnography for the new edition of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education. You can access this chapter here.

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