Languaging Class: Reflecting on the Linguistic Articulations of Structural Inequalities

Claudia Ortu (Ph.D., University of Naples, Federico II) is a researcher in English Language and Translation at the University of Cagliari in Italy. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Johannesburg for two years. She has studied British and South African political and neoliberal discourses, with a special focus on the discourse of neoliberal governments on trade unions. She is the author of the monograph 'Industrial Relations and Conservative Governments in the Eighties' (Arcane, 2012) and of various articles, among which: "At the Intersection of Class and Race: Languaging and Picturing Diversity in Post-Apartheid South Africa" (2015); "Trade Unions in South Africa and the Discourse of the Neoliberal State" (2015); and "Saps-Speak: The Language of the South African Police in the Postapartheid Era" (2019). Her main research interests are Critical Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, multimodality, and the language of Neoliberalism and trade unions. Francesco Bachis (Ph.D., University of Siena) is Senior Research Fellow (RTD-B) in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Currently, he is carrying on a research project about heritage-making and memories in Southwest Sardinia and fieldwork on the use of the social network TikTok by the so-called "second generation" of migrants in Italy. Among his publications: "Transnational Migration in Sardinia. Reflecting on Belongings and Symbolic Boundaries" (2016); "Mobilities, Boundaries, Religions: Remarks on comparative research in the Mediterranean" (2014); and 'Sull'orlo del pregiudizio. Razzismo e islamofobia in una prospettiva antropologica' (2018). His main research interests are Symbolic Boundaries in Transnational Migrations, Racism and Islamophobia in Europe, Visual Ethnography, and Mining Anthropology.