Publications
Book chapters
Canjura, J. (2025). Critical Discourse Studies and race and language ideology on social media: A Discourse-Historical Approach to examining raciolinguistic enregisterment online. In A. Ajšić, & R. Vessey, (Eds.) Current Approaches to Language Ideology and Metalinguistic Discourse. Routledge.
Canjura, J. & Milani, T. M. (Forthcoming). Language ideologies and nationalism: Bringing together linguistic anthropology and applied linguistics. In P. Montgomery, P. De Costa,. P. Sah., & K. Bernstein, (Eds.) Bloomsbury Handbook of Language Ideologies. Bloomsbury.
Presentations
Refereed presentations
Lukow, H. & Canjura, J. (May 2025). Collective Remembering and Imagining the American Small Town: A Narrative Case Study of “Our Town Bellefone.” [Paper presentation]. Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Canjura, J. & Özçelik, M. (March 2025). Toward a multi-participant framework for social media narrative analysis. [Paper presentation]. AAAL 2025, Denver, Colorado.
Canjura, J. & Özçelik, M (July 2024). Raciolinguistics and ridesharing: Race and language ideologies in a transient mobile contact zone. [Paper presentation]. Association of Language Awareness 2024, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Lukow, H. & Canjura, J. (July 2024). Yiddish as cultural capital and ethnolinguistic resource on TikTok. [Paper presentation]. Association of Language Awareness 2024, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Looney, S., Sun, M., Canjura, J. (June 2024). Deontic downgrades in responses to requests: Sequence and design as criteria for rating L2 interactional competence. [Paper presentation]. ICOP-L2 2024, Kolding, Denmark.
Looney, S., Sun, M., Canjura, J. (March 2024). Downgrading deontic stance: Sequence and design in responses to requests. [Paper presentation]. AAAL 2024, Houston, Texas.
Looney, S., Sun, M., Canjura, J. (February 2024). Assessing interactional competence for international graduate students in the US. Mälardalen Interaction and Didactics, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Delivered remotely via videoconferencing.
Canjura, J. (March 2024). English in large language-learning Facebook Groups: What’s really going on in informal online education spaces? [Roundtable presentation]. AAAL 2024, Houston, Texas.
Po, B., Su, C., Canjura, J., Milojičić, V., Jiang, Z.,Han, J., Sun., M. and Jackson, S.C. (April 2023) Elizabeth Regina: Between mourning and malice – social media discourses on colonialism and culture. [Panel-length paper presentation]. Popular Culture Association 2023, San Antonio, Texas.
Canjura, J. (June 2022). (Im)politeness and disagreement strategies in a Facebook Group [Paper presentation]. International Association for Teaching Pragmatics Spring Seminar: New Advances in L2 Pragmatics and Technology, Barcelona, Spain. Delivered remotely via videoconferencing.
Canjura, J. (February 2021). Social networking sites and the development of second language pragmatics [Paper presentation]. Peaks Interdisciplinary Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona.
University and departmental talks
Steele, A., Fan, Y, & Canjura, J. (May 2025). Trans Language/Trans Linguistics. The 2025 Weiss Symposium, Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania.
Canjura, J. & Özçelik, M. (January 2024). Social media narrative analysis. Applied Linguistics Roundtable, Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania.
Canjura, J. & Özçelik, M. (January 2024). Creating the raciolinguistic Other in Uber rides: Race, language, and nation in transient mobile contact zones. The Migration Studies Project, Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania.
Canjura, J., Bastos, P., Dai, X., Msimango, M., Özçelik, M. (December 2023). Meeting halfway: Strategies for Native English Speakers in communication with Non-Native Speakers. The Migration Studies Project, Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania.
Canjura, J., Bastos, P., Dai, X., Msimango, M., Özçelik, M. (November 2022). Designing resources for developing interactional competence in US domestic graduate students. Applied Linguistics Roundtable Series, State College, Pennsylvania.