Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow

Department of English

E-Mail
crispin.thurlow@unibe.ch
Office
B 268
Postal Address
Department of English Languages and Literatures
Universität Bern,
Länggassstrasse 49,
Bern 3000

Publications

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2024

Thurlow, Crispin; Britain, David (eds.) (2024). Language and Social Life [LSL], 27. De Gruyter

Thurlow, Crispin; Britain, David (eds.) (2024). Language and Social Life [LSL], 33. De Gruyter

2023

Thurlow, Crispin (27 November 2023). Mediatizing Sex: Sexting and/as Digital Discourse (Unpublished). In: Invited talk at the University of Zurich. Zurich.

Thurlow, Crispin (10 November 2023). Speaking dancing: Embodied style and transmodal practice in audio description (Unpublished). In: University of Bern/Language Work in the Movies: A Round Table. Bern. 09-10.11.2023.

Hedegard, Hannah Joy Black; Thurlow, Crispin (10 November 2023). "Reading sounds": Response cries and vocal bursts in closed captioning (Unpublished). In: Language in the Movies Round Table. Universität Bern. 09.11-10.11.2023.

Thurlow, Crispin; Pellanda, Alessandro; Wohlgemuth, Laura (7 November 2023). Sprechen wir über Abfall! UniAktuell

Thurlow, Crispin (11 October 2023). Stuff and nonsense: Rethinking the “crisis of waste” through sociolinguistics (Unpublished). In: Sustainability Reimagined. University of Groningen. 11.10.2023.

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (5 October 2023). Mediatizing entitlement: Regrounding work in elite discourse (Unpublished). In: Communicating the wealth inequality challenge in hybrid media systems. London School of Economics. 05-06.10.2023.

Thurlow, Crispin (27 September 2023). Staging a tomatoscape: A case study in place branding and/as semiotic reflexivity (Unpublished). In: Invited talk at the University of the Western Cape. Cape Town, South Africa (online).

Thurlow, Crispin; Britain, David (7 September 2023). Visions of perfection and despair in the global semioscape: A social semiotic analysis of stock photography (Unpublished). In: 14th Linguistic Landscapes Workshop. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – UAM. 05-08.09.2023.

Thurlow, Crispin (1 September 2023). The stuff of words: Language materiality and/as symbolic power (Unpublished). In: Language Learning and Teaching in Digital Transformation. PH Luzern. 01-02.09.2023.

Thurlow, Crispin (24 August 2023). Dull Men's Club – herrlich öde Gentlemen. Radio interview, WDR 5

Thurlow, Crispin (31 May 2023). Elite creativities: Engaging the language work of professional wordsmiths (Unpublished). In: Invited talk at University of Strasbourg and University of Glasgow. University of Strasbourg, France (online).

Thurlow, Crispin (3 May 2023). It’s a mess! Talking about waste across languages (Unpublished). In: Invited talk at the University of Stockholm. Stockholm, Sweden (online).

Thurlow, Crispin (6 April 2023). Finding words in waste: The discursive production of value (Unpublished). In: Invited talk at Georgetown University. Washington DC, USA.

Thurlow, Crispin (31 March 2023). Liquid power: Analysing the “infinity pool” as a multimodal text (Unpublished). In: Invited talk at the University of Udine. University of Udine (online).

Thurlow, Crispin (21 March 2023). Reassessing the “critical” in CDS (Unpublished). In: Reassessing the „critical‟ in CDS. Università della Svizzera italiana. 21-22.03.2023.

Thurlow, Crispin (2023). Staging a tomatoscape: A case study in place branding and/as semiotic reflexivity. Linguistic landscape, 10(1), pp. 1-21. Benjamins 10.1075/ll.23019.thu

Thurlow, Crispin (2023). Working beside/s words: A case study in the partiality and provinciality of language. Multimodality & society, 4(1), pp. 11-28. Sage 10.1177/26349795231202250

Thurlow, Crispin; Britain, David (eds.) (2023). Language and Social Life [LSL], 20. De Gruyter

Aiello, Giorgia; Thurlow, Crispin; Portmann, Lara (2023). Desocializing social media: The visual and media ideologies of stock photography. Social media + society, 178(1), pp. 1-14. Sage 10.1177/20563051231156363

Thurlow, Crispin (2023). The relentless language of superiority and comparison. Babel: The Language Magazine, 45, pp. 10-12.

Thurlow, Crispin (2023). Commentary: From southern theory to decolonizing sociolinguistics: A radical listening. In: Deumert, Ana; Makoni, Sinfree (eds.) From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics: Voices, Questions and Alternatives. Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation: Vol. 5 (pp. 255-261). Multilingual Matters 10.21832/9781788926577-016

Thurlow, Crispin; Britain, David (eds.) (2023). Language and Social Life [LSL], 26. De Gruyter

Thurlow, Crispin; Britain, David (eds.) (2023). Language and Social Life [LSL], 28. De Gruyter

Thurlow, Crispin; Britain, David (eds.) (2023). Language and Social Life [LSL], 29. De Gruyter

2022

Thurlow, Crispin (14 December 2022). Liquid power in “luxury tourism”: Mapping the global semioscape (Unpublished). In: Invited talk at College of Language and Communication, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Martime Transport. Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Martime Transport, Egypt.

Thurlow, Crispin (15 November 2022). Language, tourism, and banal globalization (Unpublished). In: Invited talk at the English Seminar, University of Zurich. University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Thurlow, Crispin (9 November 2022). Discourse ethnography: Mapping language, rethinking context (Unpublished). In: Invited talk at University of Murcia. University of Murcia.

Thurlow, Crispin (25 October 2022). Linguistic hauntings and the discursive chronotopes of waste (Unpublished). In: Invited talk at Autonomous University of Barcelona. Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Thurlow, Crispin (2022). Spracharbeit im Filmbusiness: Von der Bedeutung „kleiner Texte“. In: Brommer, Sarah; Roth, Kersten Sven; Spitzmüller, Jürgen (eds.) Brückenschläge: Linguistik an den Schnittstellen. Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik (pp. 155-175). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto

Thurlow, Crispin (28 September 2022). Big data, better data? Mining, mapping, and the cultural life of social media (Unpublished). In: 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 28-29 September 2022.

Thurlow, Crispin (8 September 2022). Staging a tomatoscape: A case study in place branding and/as semiotic reflexivity (Unpublished). In: 13th Linguistic Landscape Workshop. University of Hamburg, Germany. 7-9 September 2022.

Thurlow, Crispin (5 September 2022). Linguistic hauntings and the discursive chronotopes of waste (Unpublished). In: University of Duisburg-Essen. University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Thurlow, Crispin (5 September 2022). Messy methods and the semiotics of (urban) waste (Unpublished). In: University of Duisburg-Essen. University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Thurlow, Crispin (17 August 2022). Parsing the language of elitism: Words, practices, formations (Unpublished). In: Methods in Language Sciences Summer School. University of Ghent, Belgium. 16-20 August 2022.

Thurlow, Crispin (17 August 2022). Discourse ethnography: Mapping language, rethinking context (Unpublished). In: Methods in Language Sciences Summer School. University of Ghent, Belgium. 16-20 August 2022.

Thurlow, Crispin; Haudenschild, Noëlle (2022). Dishing up distinction: Language materiality and multimodal coherence in elite foodways. Frontiers in communication, 7, pp. 1-12. Frontiers Media 10.3389/fcomm.2022.885010

Thurlow, Crispin (2022). Rubbish? Envisioning a sociolinguistics of waste. Journal of sociolinguistics, 26(3), pp. 386-403. Wiley 10.1111/josl.12559

Thurlow, Crispin (25 May 2022). While Rome burns: Regrounding work in elite discourse (Unpublished). In: 10th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics. Pablo de Olavide University, Spain. 23-25 May 2022.

Thurlow, Crispin (7 May 2022). Embracing a life of mediocrity (Unpublished). In: TEDxBasel. Basel. 7 May 2022.

Thurlow, Crispin (28 April 2022). No strings attached? Multilingual performance and fleeting conviviality in host-tourist encounters (Unpublished). In: 5th Symposium Language for International Communication. University of Latvia, Latvia. 28-29 April 2022.

Thurlow, Crispin (25 March 2022). Beside/s words: Working without language (Unpublished). In: Unthinking Language – Paths towards Posthumanist Understandings of Human Interaction. European University Viadrina, Germany. 24-26 March 2022.

Thurlow, Crispin (15 March 2022). Rethinking context? The promises/challenges of discourse ethnography (Unpublished). In: Copenhagen Winterschool in Sociolinguistics 2022. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 14-16 March 2022.

Thurlow, Crispin; Pellanda, Alessandro; Wohlgemuth, Laura (2022). The discursive chronotopes of waste: Temporal laminations and linguistic hauntings. Language in society, 51(5), pp. 819-837. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S0047404522000616

Thurlow, Crispin; Britain, David (eds.) (2022). Language and Social Life [LSL], 24. De Gruyter

2021

Thurlow, Crispin; Aiello, Georgia; Portmann, Lara (23 September 2021). Envisioning social media: Visual and media ideologies in stock photography – a multimodal corpus-based approach (Unpublished). In: Putting Multimodality to Use: Corpus-based Applications of Multimodality and Their Implications for Theory and Methods. Universities of Salzburg & Groningen. 23.-24.09.2021.

Mapes, Gwynne; Thurlow, Crispin (1 July 2021). The practice of poetics: Metapragmatic perspectives from professional wordsmiths (Unpublished). In: International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Bi-annual Meeting. Winterthur, Switzerland. 27.06.-02.07.2019.

Portmann, Lara; Thurlow, Crispin (12 March 2021). Picturing social media – A multimodal discourse analysis (Unpublished). In: SWELL (Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics). University of Zurich. 12.03.2021.

Thurlow, Crispin (2021). Dissecting the language of elitism: The ‘joyful’ violence of premium. Language in society, 50(1), pp. 125-152. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S0047404519001015

Thurlow, Crispin (2021). When globalese meets localese: Transformational tactics in in the typographic landscape – A Bernese case study. Social semiotics, 31(1), pp. 1-20. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/10350330.2020.1810544

Thurlow, Crispin (2021). Liquid power: A social semiotics of the “infinity pool”. Visual Communication, 21(1), pp. 123-145. Sage 10.1177/1470357220984823

Britain, David; Thurlow, Crispin (eds.) (2021). Language and Social Life. De Gruyter

Thurlow, Crispin (2021). Besides hegemonic multilingualism: Making place for little stories and complex biographies. In: Blackwood, Robert; Røyneland, Unn (eds.) Spaces of Multilingualism (pp. 215-232). New York & London: Routledge 10.4324/9781003125839-15

2020

Thurlow, Crispin (26 January 2020). Gender realism: Pushing back when the binaries bite back. In: Blog. Gender Campus Blog

Thurlow, Crispin (January 2020). Words on the loose: The power of “premium”. In: Cambridge Extra. Cambridge Extra

Thurlow, Crispin; Dürscheid, Christa; Diémoz, Federica (eds.) (2020). Visualizing Digital Discourse: Interactional, Institutional and Ideological Perspectives. Language and Social Life: Vol. 21. Berlin: De Gruyter 10.1515/9781501510113

Thurlow, Crispin (ed.) (2020). The Business of Words: Linguists, Wordsmiths, and Other Language Workers. London: Routledge 10.4324/9781351041782

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaroski, Vanessa (2020). ‘Emoji invasion’: The semiotic ideologies of language endangerment in multilingual news discourse. In: Thurlow, Crispin; Dürscheid, Christa; Diémoz, Federica (eds.) Visualizing Digital Discourse: Interactional, Institutional and Ideological Perspectives. Language and Social Life: Vol. 21 (pp. 45-64). Berlin: De Gruyter 10.1515/9781501510113-003

Thurlow, Crispin (2020). The (grubby) business of words: What ‘George Clooney’ tells us. In: Thurlow, Crispin (ed.) The Business of Words: Linguists, Wordsmiths, and Other Language Workers (pp. 1-20). London: Routledge

Moshin, Jamie; Thurlow, Crispin (2020). Making (up) the news: The artful language work of journalists in ‘reporting’ taboo. In: Thurlow, Crispin (ed.) The Business of Words: Wordsmiths, Linguists and Other Language Workers (pp. 125-138). London: Routledge

Thurlow, Crispin; Britain, David (2020). Voice work: Learning about and from dialect coaches. In: Thurlow, Crispin (ed.) The Business of Words: Linguists, Wordsmiths, and Other Language Workers (pp. 67-85). London: Routledge

Thurlow, Crispin; Dürscheid, Christa (2020). Introduction: Turning to the visual in digital discourse studies. In: Thurlow, Crispin; Dürscheid, Christa; Diémoz, Federica (eds.) Visualizing Digital Discourse: Interactional, Institutional and Ideological Perspectives. Language and Social Life [LSL]: Vol. 21 (pp. 1-18). Berlin: De Gruyter 10.1515/9781501510113-001

Britain, David; Thurlow, Crispin (eds.) (2020). Language and Social Life. De Gruyter

Thurlow, Crispin (2020). Beyond the managed heart? Seduction, subjugation and the symbolic economies of sleep. Social semiotics, 31(5), pp. 788-804. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/10350330.2020.1810543

2019

Thurlow, Crispin (December 2019). Language and sexual politics: How words matter. In: Blog. Gender Campus Blog

Thurlow, Crispin (7 November 2019). Liquid power: A social semiotics of the infinity pool (Unpublished). In: Invited lecture. University of Hong Kong. 07.11.19.

Thurlow, Crispin (2019). Expanding our sociolinguistic horizons? Geographical thinking and the articulatory potential of commodity chain analysis. Journal of sociolinguistics, 24(3), pp. 350-368. Wiley 10.1111/josl.12388

Thurlow, Crispin (26 September 2019). Visualizando el paisaje semiótico global: Los medios digitales y las movilidades ‘super-elite’ (Unpublished). In: En torno a la comunicación digital: Interacción, turismo y discurso politico. University of Valladolid, Spain. 26-27 September 2019.

Thurlow, Crispin; Aiello, Georgia; Portmann, Lara (2019). Visualizing teens and technology: A social semiotic analysis of stock photography and news media imagery. New media & society, 22(3), pp. 528-549. Sage 10.1177/1461444819867318

Thurlow, Crispin; Gonçalves, Kellie (2019). Introduction: X-SCAPES: New horizons in linguistic landscapes. Linguistic landscape, 5(2), pp. 111-114. Benjamins

Thurlow, Crispin (2019). Mediatizing sex: Sexting and/as digital discourse. In: Hall, Kira; Barrett, Rusty (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.41

Britain, David; Thurlow, Crispin (eds.) (2019). Language and Social Life, (8). De Gruyter

Thurlow, Crispin (2019). Semiotic creativities in and with space: Binaries and boundaries, beware! International Journal of Multilingualism, 16(1), pp. 94-104. Routledge 10.1080/14790718.2018.1500264

Thurlow, Crispin; Gonçalves, Kellie (eds.) (2019). X-Scapes. New horizons in Linguistic Landscapes, 5(2). John Benjamins

Thurlow, Crispin; Portmann, Lara; Droz-dit-Busset, Olivia Alizée (2019). Visualizing new media: Image bank keywords corpus [Dataset]. In: Image bank keywords corpus.

2018

Thurlow, Crispin (22 October 2018). Premium power: Obedient publics and the violent rhetorics of elite discourse (Unpublished). In: Wild Publics. Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland. 22.-24.10.2018.

Thurlow, Crispin (14 October 2018). Beyond the managed heart? Seduction and subordination in “premium” travel (Unpublished). In: Language and Intimacy. Universität Köln, Deutschland. 13.-14.10.2018.

Thurlow, Crispin (30 June 2018). Panel "Sociolinguistics and Southern Theory – Voices, Questions and Alternatives" (Unpublished). In: Sociolinguistic Symposium. University of Auckland, New Zealand. 27.-30.06.2018.

Thurlow, Crispin (28 June 2018). Bottom up, inside out: Pseudo-sociality, status anxiety and ‘sousveillance’ discourse (Unpublished). In: Sociolinguistic Symposium. University of Auckland, New Zealand. 27.-30.062018.

Thurlow, Crispin (27 June 2018). Touching taste: On the euphoric, classist intersections of textuality, materiality and tactility (Unpublished). In: Sociolinguistic Symposium. University of Auckland, New Zealand. 27.-30.06.2018.

Thurlow, Crispin (27 April 2018). “Enjoy the climb”: Dissecting the language of elitism (Unpublished). In: Guest Talk. Södertörn University, Schweden. 27.04.2018.

Thurlow, Crispin (6 April 2018). “It’s the little things that make the difference”: Debunking the seductive, post-class rhetorics of elite discourse (Unpublished). In: Guest Talk. Georgetown University. 6 April 2018.

Thurlow, Crispin (8 March 2018). Rethinking “rethinking context”? Articulating the materialities of privilege/inequality (Unpublished). In: Disturbing Sociolinguistics. University of Hong Kong. 8-9 March 2018.

Thurlow, Crispin (2018). Critical discourse studies in/of applied contexts: Missed opportunities, fraught possibilities. In: Flowerdew, John; Richardson, John (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Analysis. Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics (pp. 328-341). London: Routledge

Thurlow, Crispin; Moshin, Jamie (2018). What the f#@$! Policing and performing the unmentionable in the news. In: Schröter, Melani; Taylor, Charlotte (eds.) Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse: Empirical Approaches. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (pp. 305-328). London: Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-319-64580-3_11

Thurlow, Crispin (2018). Digital discourse: Locating language in new/social media. In: Burgess, Jean; Marwick, Alice; Poell, Thomas (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Social Media. SAGE reference (pp. 135-145). New York: Sage

Britain, David; Thurlow, Crispin (eds.) (2018). Language and Social Life, (7 ; 9 ; 12). De Gruyter

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (eds.) (2018). Elite Discourse: The Rhetorics of Status, Privilege, and Power. London: Routledge

Thurlow, Crispin; Portmann, Lara; Droz-dit-Busset, Olivia Alizée (2018). Visualizing new media: Stock photography corpus [Dataset]. In: Stock photography corpus.

Thurlow, Crispin; Portmann, Lara; Droz-dit-Busset, Olivia Alizée (2018). Visualizing new media: News media corpus [Dataset]. In: News media corpus.

Thurlow, Crispin (2018). Digital Discourse Database [Dataset]. In: Digital Discourse Database. Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow & Swiss National Science Foundation

2017

Thurlow, Crispin (November 2017). Articulating privilege: De/materializing discourse (Unpublished). In: 7th Language in the Media. University of Western Cape, South Africa.

Thurlow, Crispin; Portmann, Lara; Aiello, Giorgia (November 2017). Visual ideologies in the mediatized representation of young people and technology (Unpublished). In: Visualizing (in) the New Media. University of Lausanne, CH.

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (eds.) (2017). Social semiotics, 27(3). Taylor & Francis

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (2017). Introducing Elite Discourse: The Rhetorics of Status, Privilege and Power. Social semiotics, 27(3), pp. 243-254. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/10350330.2017.1301789

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (2017). Word-things and thing-words: The transmodal production of privilege and status. In: Cavanaugh, Jillian R.; Shankar, Shalini (eds.) Language and Materiality: Ethnographical and Theoretical Explorations (pp. 185-203). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Thurlow, Crispin (2017). Enmarcando el lenguaje de los nuevos medios. In: Giammatteo, Mabel; Gubitosi, Patricia; Parini, Alejandro (eds.) El Español en la Red. Lingüística iberoamericana: Vol. 68 (pp. 27-46). Madrid: Iberoamericana

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (2017). The discursive production and maintenance of class privilege: Permeable geographies, slippery rhetorics. Discourse & society, 28(5), pp. 535-558. Sage Publications 10.1177/0957926517713778

Britain, David; Thurlow, Crispin (eds.) (2017). Language and Social Life, (6 ; 11). De Gruyter

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (eds.) (2017). Social Semiotics. Special Issue: Elite Discourse: The Rhetorics of Status and Privilege, 27(3). Taylor & Francis

Thurlow, Crispin (2017). “Forget about the words”? Tracking the language, media and semiotic ideologies of digital discourse: The case of sexting. Discourse, context & media, 20, pp. 10-19. Elsevier 10.1016/j.dcm.2017.06.008

Jaworski, Adam; Thurlow, Crispin (2017). Mediatizing the “super rich”, normalizing privilege. Social semiotics, 27(3), pp. 276-287. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/10350330.2017.1301792

Thurlow, Crispin (2017). Beyond the snapshot: Towards the biography of signs (a Bernese case study) (Unpublished). In: 9th Linguistic Landscape Workshop. University of Luxembourg, LUX.

Thurlow, Crispin (2017). “I also speak Berndütsch”: The material biographies of linguistic landscapes (Unpublished). In: SAUTE 2017 (Conference of the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English). University of Neuchâtel, CH.

2016

Thurlow, Crispin (16 December 2016). Class acts: Multimodal discourse and the production of power/ privilege (Unpublished). In: Invited talk/workshop for the Department of English Studies. Valencia, Spanien. 16. Dezember 2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (1 December 2016). “Premium Economy”: The precarious rhetorics of status and distinction (Unpublished). In: Invited talk. Karlstad, Schweden. 1. Dezember 2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (29 November 2016). Dishing up distinction: Materializing discourses and elite status (Unpublished). In: Invited talk for the Department of Media and Communication Studies. Örebro, Schweden. 29. November 2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (25 November 2016). Beyond words: The semiotic ideologies of sexting (Unpublished). In: Centre de linguistique et des sciences du langage. Lausanne, Schweiz. 25. November 2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (17 October 2016). Messing with methods: Research tactics for complex times (Unpublished). In: Invited talk/workshop for the Department of Linguistics. University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Südafrika. 17. Oktober 2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (23 September 2016). Messing with methods: Research tactics for complex times (Unpublished). In: Invited talk/workshop for the School of African and Gender Studies. Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town, Kapstadt, Südafrika. 23. September 2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (4 September 2016). Non-places, empty spaces and the anti-communicational ethos of elite mobility (Unpublished). In: International Summer School Language and Space. Zürich, Schweiz. 4.-9. September 2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (14 July 2016). Unsustainable? Mapping the global semioscape of super-elite tourism (Unpublished). In: Global Tourism: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Seattle, USA. 14.-15.07.2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (24 June 2016). The language of super-elite tourism (Unpublished). In: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being: Representing the Voices of Tourism. Bergamo, Italien. 23.-25.06.2016.

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (17 June 2016). “Premium”: The production of distinction/prestige in airline marketing discourse (Unpublished). In: Sociolinguistics Symposium 21. Murcia, Spanien. 15.-18.06.2016.

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (17 June 2016). Mediatizing the super-rich, normalizing privilege (Unpublished). In: Sociolinguistics Symposium 21. Murcia, Spanien. 15.-18.06.2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (15 June 2016). Creativity and play in the multilingual/multimodal semiotic landscape (Unpublished). In: Sociolinguistics Symposium 21. Murcia, Spanien. 15.-18.06.2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (April 2016). The precarious rhetorics of distinction: The case of “premium economy” (Unpublished). In: “Elite Discourse” round-table conference. Bern, Schweiz. 05.-07.04.2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (February 2016). Words on the loose: Language as global, boundary-marking practice (Unpublished). In: International Workshop “Linguistic Boundaries and Political Economy". Fribourg, Schweiz. 4.-5. Feburar 2016.

Britain, David; Thurlow, Crispin (18 January 2016). Dialect coaches as language workers (Unpublished). In: Wordsmiths Take 2 workshop. University of Bern. 18.01.2016.

Thurlow, Crispin; Britain, David (January 2016). New directions: Mapping the work of accent, voice and dialect coaches (Unpublished). In: Wordsmiths-Take 2 round-table conference. Bern, Schweiz. 18.-19.01.2016.

Thurlow, Crispin (2016). Queering critical discourse studies or/and performing post-class ideologies. Critical Discourse Studies, 13(5), pp. 485-514. Taylor and Francis 10.1080/17405904.2015.1122646

Thurlow, Crispin (2016). Where did all the teachers go? The divisive implications of ‘impact’ and ‘community engagement’ (Submitted). Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Taylor & Francis

Britain, David; Thurlow, Crispin (eds.) (2016). Language and Social Life, (5; 10). De Gruyter

2015

Thurlow, Crispin (16 November 2015). Addressing the ideologies of digital discourse: The sordid story of sexting. (Unpublished). In: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis. University of Valencia. 16.-17.11.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (13 November 2015). The more-than-representational provocations of elitist discourse. In: Diskurs – holistisch: Perspektiven integrierender Diskursforschung. University of Bern. 13.11.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (11 November 2015). Visualizing language ideologies: The tenacious case of texting (and sexting) (Unpublished). In: Communication in the ‘Country of Babel’: Language Ideological Debates on Contact Varieties. University of Bern. 11.-12.11.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (21 October 2015). Semiotic ideologies and sexting (Unpublished). In: Invited Talk. University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. 21.10.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (8 October 2015). Making sense of sexting discourse (Unpublished). In: Invited Talk. University of Lausanne. 8.10.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (October 2015). Keynote Paper: The euphoria of privilege and the limits of language (Unpublished). In: Sociolinguistics Today and Tomorrow. University of Hong Kong. October 2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (29 September 2015). Language, materiality and new post-class ideologies (Unpublished). In: The Kent Ridge Linguistics Colloquia Series. National University of Singapore, Singapore. 29.11.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (7 September 2015). Mediatizing Sex (Unpublished). In: The 6th Language in the Media Conference. University of Hamburg. 07.-09.09.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (7 September 2015). Sexting: Unravelling the language/technology/work ménage (Unpublished). In: The 6th Language in the Media Conference. University of Hamburg. 07.-09.09.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (2015). Multimodality, materiality and everday textualities: The sensuous stuff of status. In: Rippl, Gabriele (ed.) Handbook of Intermediality: Literature, Image, Sound, Music. Handbooks of English and American Studies: Vol. 1 (pp. 619-636). Frankfurt am Main: De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110311075-035

Thurlow, Crispin (3 June 2015). Engaging the world of language work/ers (Unpublished). In: The Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centering and (De)standardization. University of Hong Kong. 03.-06.06.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (3 June 2015). Decentring the linguist OR Language workers of the world unite! (Unpublished). In: The Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centering and (De)standardization. University of Hong Kong. 03.-06.06.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (21 May 2015). Word-things and space-sounds: The synaesthetic rhetorics of luxury (Unpublished). In: Critical Luxury Studies. Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. 21.05.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (14 May 2015). Performing New “Post-Class” Ideologies OR Queering Critical Discourse Studies (Unpublished). In: GLOBE conference “Past, present and future of discourse studies”. University of Warsaw. 14.-16.05.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (13 May 2015). Making sense of digital discourse: Ideologies, methodologies, multimodalities (Unpublished). In: Language and Society: Workshop in Communication and Discourse Studies. University of Warsaw. 13.05.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (24 April 2015). “A world apart”: Language, materiality and the global semioscape of super-elite status (Unpublished). In: The SAUTE conference on “The Economies of English”. University of Geneva. 24.-25.04.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (9 April 2015). Where did all the teachers go? Confronting the divisive implications of impact, community engagement, etc (Unpublished). In: The 4th iMean conference. Warwick University, England. 09.-11.04.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (4 March 2015). The sensuous stuff of status: Language, materiality and elitist discourse. In: Invited Talk. Humanities Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, England. 04.03.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin (3 March 2015). The world of wordsmiths: Engaging the work of contemporary language workers (Unpublished). In: The Applied Linguistics Seminar Series. Newcastle University, England. 03.03.2015.

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (15 January 2015). Permeable geographies, slippery rhetorics: The “post-enclavic” landcapes of super-elite status (Unpublished). In: Cities and the Super-Rich. City University of Hong Kong. 15.-16.01.2015.

Jaworski, Adam; Thurlow, Crispin (2015). Tourism Discourse. In: Tracy, Karen (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction (pp. 1-6). Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell 10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi112

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (2015). On top of the world: Tourist's spectacular self-locations as multimodal travel writing. In: Kuehn, Julia; Smethurst, Paul (eds.) New Directions in Travel Writing Studies (pp. 35-53). London: Palgrave McMillan

Thurlow, Crispin (2015). Crispin Thurlow Discusses Digital Communication [Movie]. In: Sage Video Experts. London, England: Sage Video

Britain, David; Thurlow, Crispin (eds.) (2015). Language and Social Life, (1-4). De Gruyter

2014

Thurlow, Crispin (1 September 2014). Word-things and space-sounds: The synaesthetic rhetorics of luxury (Unpublished). In: 5th international conference on critical approaches to discourse analysis across disciplines (CADAAD). Lorànd Eötvös University, Budapest. 01.-03.09.2014.

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, A; Heller, M (eds.) (2014). Sociolinguistics and Tourism. Special Issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics, 18(4). Wiley Online Library

Heller, Monica; Jaworski, Adam; Thurlow, Crispin (2014). Introduction: Sociolinguistics and tourism - mobilities, markets, multilingualism. Journal of sociolinguistics, 18(4), pp. 425-458. Blackwell Publishing (Wiley) 10.1111/josl.12091

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (2014). "Two hundred ninety-four": Remediation and multimodal performance in tourist placemaking. Journal of sociolinguistics, 18(4), pp. 459-494. Blackwell Publishing 10.1111/josl.12090

Thurlow, Crispin; Moshin, J (2014). Wooly sluts and incurious cowboys: Taboo language and the print media's vilification of the Other (Submitted). Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Routledge

Thurlow, Crispin (22 April 2014). El discurso digital: Desde ideologías de nueva lengua hasta nuevas ideologías de la lengua (Unpublished). In: 14th Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística. Universidad Nacional de Catamarca. 22.-25.04.2014.

Thurlow, Crispin (21 February 2014). Luxury landscapes: Language, materiality and the semiotic production of super-elite status (Unpublished). In: Invited Talk. New York University. 21.02.2014.

Thurlow, Crispin (21 February 2014). Language at work: Engaging the worlds of contemporary wordsmithery (Unpublished). In: Invited Talk. New York University. 21.02.2014.

Thurlow, Crispin; Jaworski, Adam (2014). Visible-Invisible: The social semiotics of labour in luxury tourism. In: Birtchnell, Thomas; Caletrio, Javier (eds.) Elite Mobilities (pp. 176-193). London: Routledge

Thurlow, Crispin (2014). Disciplining youth: Language ideologies and new technologies. In: Jaworski, Adam; Coupland, Nikolas (eds.) The Discourse Reader (pp. 481-496). London: Routledge