Mabel Victoria
Mabel Victoria

Dr Mabel Victoria

Lecturer

 0131 455 4722

  M.Victoria@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

I am an applied sociolinguist with research interests in intercultural communication, English as a lingua franca, linguistic politeness, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and linguistic landscapes. I teach Intercultural Business Communication, Exploring Culture and An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. I have a PhD in Intercultural Communication and Applied Sociolinguistics, MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and MRes in Education. I am interested in applying insights from linguistic ethnography in the analysis of spoken discourse. My most recent publications include: Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally (2022, Editor, Cambridge Scholars), Interculturality and the English Language Classroom (2021, Co-editor, Palgrave), "Penitensiya" as Religious-Dark Tourism in Tourist Studies Journal (2021).

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Events

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Co-organiser: Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography
  • Co-organiser Visual Methods and Ethnography Seminar Series 2
  • Project Lead: Visual Methods and Ethnography Seminar Series 1
  • Arts and Intercultural Understanding
  • Transculturing in the Third Space Using English as a Lingua Franca
  • Transculturing in the Third Space through Language
  • Transforming Borders into Bridges: Communication Strategies and Resources for Building Relations across Cultures
  • The selfie project: learning/teaching English in an innovative way
  • Using the liminal spaces of the classroom as a pedagogical resource Teaching Fellowship Conference
  • How Immigrants in an Employment-focused Program ‘do’ Solidarity and Empathy

 

Editorial Activity

  • Managing Editor
  • Book Review Editor

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External Advisor
  • PhD External Examiner
  • External Examiner
  • PhD External Examiner
  • External Examiner

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Recipient of Language Acts and Worldmaking 'Small Grant' Award
  • Recipient of British Council and Newton 'Research Links' Award
  • Recipient of British Council and Newton Researcher Links
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

Invited Speaker

  • Linguistic Politeness and Intercultural Competence
  • Research Writing for Researchers
  • Navigating Intercultural Border Crossings through Language
  • The Language of Friendship and Solidarity in Intercultural Encounters
  • Applied Linguistics according to Kermit, the Frog
  • Intercultural Border Crossings
  • How Canadian Immigrants from different Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds Manage Interaction Successfully

 

Media Activity

  • The Art of Latrinalia

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Enhancing Intercultural Understanding and Inclusion Using Visual Methods

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • PhD Internal Examiner

 

Reviewing

  • Journal Reviewer
  • Peer Reviewer for the Asian EFL Journal
  • Peer Reviewer

 

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'Learning and using languages in ethnographic research: by Robert Gibb, Annabel Tremlett, and Julien Danero Iglesias, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2019'

Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2021)
'Learning and using languages in ethnographic research: by Robert Gibb, Annabel Tremlett, and Julien Danero Iglesias, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2019'. Language and Intercultural Communication, 21(4), 532-534. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2021.1947554
Abstract not available.

Wall of Support: New Perspectives on Students’ Use of Graffiti

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2020, February)
Wall of Support: New Perspectives on Students’ Use of Graffiti. Paper presented at Department of Learning and Teaching Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh
What compels students to solicit personal advice from strangers by writing inscriptions on the toilet wall? Why resort to graffiti to cope with depression, deal with the fear...

Toilet graffiti: secrets, support and solidarity in the women's restroom

Other
Victoria, M. (2020)
Toilet graffiti: secrets, support and solidarity in the women's restroom. UK
Communicating has never been so easy; we can to send messages and texts to friends and strangers in an instant from a variety of platforms. You would think this would affect t...

Exploring Language and Culture through Film

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2019, June)
Exploring Language and Culture through Film. Paper presented at DLTE Learning and Teaching Conference, Edinburgh Napier University
This presentation reports on the results of the project Exploring Language and Culture through Film which was part of the Enhancement initiative.

The Use of Indigenous Methods in Research

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2019, June)
The Use of Indigenous Methods in Research. Paper presented at ENU Research Conference 2019, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

The Use of Humour in the Off-task Spaces of the Language Classroom

Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2019)
The Use of Humour in the Off-task Spaces of the Language Classroom. ELT Journal, 73(2), 186-196. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccy054
The focal point of most investigations into classroom discourse tends to be on the institutionally sanctioned and legitimized on-task exchanges between teachers and students w...

English: its role as the language of comity in an employment programme for Canadian immigrants

Book Chapter
Victoria, M. (2018)
English: its role as the language of comity in an employment programme for Canadian immigrants. In Skilled Migration and Global EnglishTaylor & Francis
This study explores the experiences of a culturally and linguistically diverse group of immigrant adult students as they attended a 12-week employment preparation course for n...

Transculturing in the Third Space Using English as a Lingua Franca

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2018, July)
Transculturing in the Third Space Using English as a Lingua Franca. Paper presented at ELF 11 – the 11th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, King's College, London
This ethnographically informed investigation, conducted over 28 weeks at a Thai university, explores the discursive construction of a transcultural ‘third’ space by analysing ...

The verbal and the visual in language learning and teaching: insights from the ‘Selfie Project’

Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2021)
The verbal and the visual in language learning and teaching: insights from the ‘Selfie Project’. Language Learning Journal, 49(2), 93-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2018.1484797
That ‘a picture can stimulate a thousand words’ aptly summarizes the role of the visual in the field of language learning and teaching. The power of the image to generate lang...

‘Don’t be serious, sabai-sabai สบายสบาย’: How Members of an English Conversation Club at a Thai University do Interculturality

Book Chapter
Victoria, M. (in press)
‘Don’t be serious, sabai-sabai สบายสบาย’: How Members of an English Conversation Club at a Thai University do Interculturality. In Discourse and Interculturality
The current investigation explores interculturality by looking at the language practices of a culturally and linguistically diverse group of postgraduate students from China, ...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • PhD project funded by The Open University
  • Power and Politeness in Philippine Higher Education Classrooms
  • An Investigation into Communication Strategies by English as a Lingua Franca Speakers

Current Post Grad projects