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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Conference Organising Activity

  • Co-organiser: Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography
  • Co-organiser Visual Methods and Ethnography Seminar Series 2
  • Arts and Intercultural Understanding
  • Project Lead: Visual Methods and Ethnography Seminar Series 1
  • 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
  • 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
  • The selfie project: learning/teaching English in an innovative way

 

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
  • How Canadian Immigrants from different Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds Manage Interaction Successfully
  • Intercultural Border Crossings
  • 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

 

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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A discourse analytic study of power as caring relations in Philippine university classrooms.

Book
Victoria, M. (2012)
A discourse analytic study of power as caring relations in Philippine university classrooms. In Critical Approaches to Care: Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Culture. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). ISBN 9781138781788
Using audio recordings of naturalistic classroom interactions as data, this chapter explores a re-conceptualisation of power as caring relations. The perspective adopted here...

Negotiating Communication & Building Relations Across Cultures

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2011, October)
Negotiating Communication & Building Relations Across Cultures. Paper presented at Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference, Queen’s University Belfast

Ethical Dimensions of Shared Ethnicity, Language, and Immigration Experience

Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2011)
Ethical Dimensions of Shared Ethnicity, Language, and Immigration Experience. TESL Canada Journal, 28, 72-79
In this article I illustrate how some commonalities that I share with my participants―ethnic background, native language, and immigration experience―create unexpected ethical ...

Negotiating Intercultural Border Crossings: How People from Diverse Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds Negotiate Communication and Establish Relations

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2010, November)
Negotiating Intercultural Border Crossings: How People from Diverse Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds Negotiate Communication and Establish Relations. Paper presented at 18th Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of Southampton
There has been a wealth of studies from a variety of disciplines that explore the complex relations between language and culture. However, many of these investigations tend to...

A ‘Politeness free-for-all’ in a multicultural classroom

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2010, June)
A ‘Politeness free-for-all’ in a multicultural classroom. Paper presented at 5th International Symposium on Politeness, University of Basel, Switzerland

Social Interaction in a Multicultural Group: How People from Different Cultural and Linguistic Background Negotiate Communication and Establish Relations

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2010, March)
Social Interaction in a Multicultural Group: How People from Different Cultural and Linguistic Background Negotiate Communication and Establish Relations. Paper presented at EPICS IV - 4th Symposium On Intercultural, Cognitive And Social Pragmatics, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain
There has been a wealth of studies that explore the interplay between culture and communication. However, many of these investigations tend to focus disproportionately on misu...

Power and politeness: a study of social interaction in business meetings with multicultural participation

Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2009)
Power and politeness: a study of social interaction in business meetings with multicultural participation. ESP Across Cultures, 129-140
In today's increasingly global economy, members of the same work team do not necessarily work in the same country or on the same continent. They speak different mother tongues...

Power and Politeness: Social Interaction in Philippine Higher Education Classrooms

Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2009)
Power and Politeness: Social Interaction in Philippine Higher Education Classrooms. Philippine Journal of Linguistics, 40, 17-32

The strategic use of impoliteness to convey caring relations: A Philippine cultural perspective

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2009, June)
The strategic use of impoliteness to convey caring relations: A Philippine cultural perspective. Paper presented at Linguistic Impoliteness And Rudeness Conference, Lancaster University
It has been claimed that in some discourse contexts, huge power differential and training philosophy account for the pervasiveness of impoliteness (Culpeper 1996: 359). In thi...

How Professors and Students in two Universities in the Philippines Do Power and Politeness in the Classroom

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2008, July)
How Professors and Students in two Universities in the Philippines Do Power and Politeness in the Classroom. Paper presented at 4th International Symposium on Politeness “East Meets West”, Budapest
This research investigates how professors and students from two universities in the Philippines linguistically enact power and politeness in the classroom. Professors can be s...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

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

Current Post Grad projects