Andrew Anthony Jocuns, PhD

Overview

I am Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. My research interests are rooted in qualitative approaches to sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. I have conducted research in a wide scope of topics ranging from how people learn in interaction, identity practices of engineering and STEM professionals, discourses of tourism in Thailand, how students narrativize their schoolscape, and the indexical field of Thai English. Other interests include elective bilingualism, digital literacy, multimodal discourse analysis, geosemiotics/linguistic landscapes, informal learning, Global Englishes, mediated discourse theory & nexus analysis, narrative, and multilingualism. Previously I have held positions at universities in Thailand, the University of Washington, and US government agencies.

Education

• - 2005 – Ph.D. Linguistics, Sociolinguistics Program, Georgetown University
• - 2003 – M.S. Linguistics, Georgetown University
• - 1998 – M.A. Anthropology, Brandeis University.
• - 1995 – B.A. Anthropology, the Pennsylvania State University.

Publications

Jocuns, A. (n.d.). Tagging #Thainess: The social media life of a national identity strategy. Under review

de Groot, Freek Olaf & Jocuns, A. (n. d.). Multimodality and Civic Participation: The case of Thailand’s Rap Against Dictatorship. Under review.

Jocuns, A. & Jocuns, K. F. (n.d.). Good brain, good future: A critical multimodal analysis of the strategic ambiguity of Thai brain-enhancing lifestyle products advertisements. Under review.

Setyarini, M.C.E. & Jocuns, A. (n.d.). Teacher’s perspectives and practices of translanguaging in Indonesian EFL. Under review.

Jocuns, K. F., & Jocuns, A. (n.d.). Family Language Policies in Thailand: Multiliteracy practices and global English. To appear: In T. Brato, G. Regnoli, & A. Samuel (Eds.), Acquisition and variation in World Englishes: Bridging paradigms and rethinking approaches. Mouton de Gruyter.

Zhang, Y., & Jocuns, A. (2022). From natural translanguaging to planned translanguaging: Developing classroom translanguaging as pedagogy in a private university in China. Arab World English Journal, 13(1), 313–329. https://doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol13no1.20

Jocuns, A. (2022). ‘Uhh I’m not trying to be racist or anything’: Exploring an indexical field of Thai English. Asian Englishes, 24(1), 9–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2020.1846107

Jocuns, A. (2021). The geosemiotics of a Thai University: The narratives embedded in schoolscapes. Linguistics and Education, 61, 121–142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2021.100902

Jocuns, A., Shi, L., Zhang, L., Yin, T., Gu, X., Zhang, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Translocating classroom discourse practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in China: A reflective nexus analysis account. Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 8(3), 121-142.

Jocuns, A. (2020) Aroi mai? The Multimodality of “Thainess” in Thai tourism videos. Multimodal Communication. 9(1), 1-18. Doi:10.1515/mc-2019-0011

Jocuns, A. (2019). Why is English green? English and green discourses in the geosemiotics of a Thai University. Manusya: Journal of Humanities, 22(3), 289-320. doi:10.1163/26659077-

Jocuns, A. (2018). English in Thai Tourism: Global English as a Nexus of Practice. In Sandhya Rao (Ed.) Language and Literature in a Glocal World. pp. 57-76, Singapore: Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_4

Kilgore, D., Atman, C., Jocuns, A., and Shroyer, K. (2018). From Research to Action in the Classroom: Encouraging Broad Thinking in Engineering Design with Significant Learning Experiences. International Journal of Engineering Education, 34(2B), 1-15.

Jocuns, A. (2018). Examining Traditional Communicative practices in Gerai, Indonesia: a nexus analysis. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 13(1), 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2018.1438441

Jocuns, A., de Saint-Georges, I., Chonmabatrakul, N., and Angkapanichkit, J. (2015). ‘Please Do not Stand over the Buddha’s Head (Pay Respect)’: Mediations of Tourist and Researcher Experience in Thailand. Languages Cultures Mediation 2(1),115-134. https://doi.org/10.7358/lcm-2015-001-jocu

Jocuns, A. (2012). Classroom Discourse. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley. On-line Library.

Kilgore, D., Jocuns, A., Yasuhara, K., and Atman, C. J. (2010). From beginning to end: How engineering students think and talk about sustainability across the life cycle, International Journal of Engineering Education, 16(2), 305-315.

Jocuns, A. (2009). Participation structures as a mediational means: Learning Balinese gamelan in the United States through intent participation, mediated discourse, and distributed cognition. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 16(1), 48–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/10749030802477341

Stevens, R., O’Connor, K., Garrison, L., Jocuns, A., & Amos, D. M. (2008). Becoming an engineer: Toward a three dimensional view of engineering learning. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 355. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2008.tb00984.x

Jocuns, A. (2007). Semiotics and classroom interaction: Mediated discourse, distributed cognition, and the multimodal semiotics of maguru panggul pedagogy in two Balinese gamelan classrooms in the United States. Semiotica, 2007(164), 123–151. https://doi.org/10.1515/SEM.2007.022

Jocuns, A. (2003). Communicative Practices in an American Gamelan Orchestra. MediaTor, 4(2), 14.