At the heart of this volume lies an exploration of what actually happens to languages and their users when cultures come into contact. What actions do supra-national institutions, nation states, communities and individuals take in response to questions raised by the increasingly diverse forms of migration experienced in a globalized world? The volume reveals the profound impact that decisions made at national and international level can have on the lives of the individual migrant, language student, or speech community. Equally, it evaluates the broader ramifications of actions taken by migrant communities and individual language learners around issues of language learning, language maintenance and intercultural contact. Reflecting Jan Blommaert’s assertion that in a world shaped by globalization, what is needed is ‘a theory of language in society... of changing language in a changing society’, this volume argues that researchers must increasingly seek diverse methodological approaches if they are to do justice to the diversity of experience and response they encounter.
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Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Approaching migration, intercultural contact and language learning, Barbara Geraghty and Jean E Conacher Part 1: Migration and language contact 1. Migration and language management: The Jewish experience, Bernard Spolsky 2. Linguistic vitality and the Polish community in France, Vera Regan and Eweline Debaene 3. Language planners’ cultural positioning strategies in joint negotiation of meaning, Patrick Studer Part 2: Language learning and cultural contact 4. Emergent new literacies and the mobile phone: Informal language learning, voice and identity in a South African township, Fie Velghe and Jan Blommaert 5. Attitudes towards and perceptions of English L2 acquisition among Polish migrants in Ireland, Agnieszka Skrzypek, Romana Kopecková, Barbara Bidzinska and David Singleton 6. Face-to-face tandem language learning: A Zone of Proximal Development for intercultural competence?, Fionnuala Kennedy and Áine Furlong 7. E-portfolio self-assessment of intercultural communicative competence: Helping language learners to become autonomous intercultural speakers, Aleksandra Sudhershan Part 3: Migration and contact: Community and individual experience 8. Heterglossic becomings: Listening to and learning from our multiple voices, Julie Choi and David Nunan 9. The Catalan Nova Cançó: Resistance and identity through song, Núria Borrull 10. Wandering words: Reflections on ambivalent cultural belonging and the creative potential of linguistic multiplicity, Irmina van Niele Conclusion, Barbara Geraghty and Jean E Conacher Index
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This book is an important addition to the literature on the complex interaction between migration, language and culture at societal, community and personal levels. Its diversity of themes, perspectives and research methods aptly reflects the multifarious realities we inhabit, and the editors’ introductory and concluding commentaries do an excellent job of relating the concerns of individual chapters to the larger picture.
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Examines what happens to language when cultures come into contact, at individual or community level, in a globalized world.
Situates language, contact and diversity as key themes in a globalized, networked world.
Since the emergence of sociolinguistics as a new field of enquiry in the late 1960s, research into the relationship between language and society has advanced almost beyond recognition. In particular, the past decade has witnessed the considerable influence of theories drawn from outside of sociolinguistics itself. Thus rather than see language as a mere reflection of society, recent work has been increasingly inspired by ideas drawn from social, cultural, and political theory that have emphasised the constitutive role played by language/discourse in all areas of social life. The Advances in Sociolinguistics series seeks to provide a snapshot of the current diversity of the field of sociolinguistics and the blurring of the boundaries between sociolinguistics and other domains of study concerned with the role of language in society.
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ISBN
9781441189929
Publisert
2014-07-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
531 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
256

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Biographical note

Barbara Geraghty is Lecturer in Japanese at the School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication, University of Limerick, Ireland. Jean E Conacher is Senior Lecturer in German, at the School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication, University of Limerick, Ireland.