Certain forms of mobility and multilingualism tend to be portrayed as problematic in the public sphere, while others are considered to be unremarkable. Divided into three thematic sections, this book explores the contestation of spaces and the notion of borders, examines the ways in which heritage and authenticity are linked or challenged, and interrogates the intersections between mobility and hierarchies and the ways that language can be linked to notions of belonging and aspirations for mobility. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe, it explores how language functions as both site of struggle and as a means of overcoming struggle. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation.
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The chapters in this volume investigate how diverse forms of (im)mobility and multilingualism are (re-)negotiated in relationship to space, identity and power. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation.
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Introduction: Kristine Horner and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain: Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging Section I: Contested Spaces: Language, Borders and (Un)belonging Chapter 2. James Hawkey: The Border as a Site of Sociolinguistic Inquiry: Findings from Northern Catalonia Chapter 3. Mark Payne: Ethnolinguistic Landscaping in Sheffield: The invisible Repertoires of the Slovak Roma Chapter 4. Yolandi Ribbens-Klein: The Embodiment of Place: Boorlinge, Inkommers and the Struggle to Belong Chapter 5. Mike Baynham: Contested Spaces: A Commentary Section II: Trajectories and Heritage: Language, Authenticities and (Un)belonging Chapter 6. Antonia Rubino: Authenticity, Agency and Mobility in the Discourse of Italian Migrants in Australia Chapter 7. Katharina König: Speaking with or without an Accent: Language Ideologies and the ‘Problem’ of Linguistic Super-Mobility Chapter 8. Jessica Bradley and James Simpson: Negative Translanguaging Space: Mobility and Immobility in Inner-City Leeds Chapter 9. Samantha Litty and Joseph Salmons: Trajectories and Heritage: A Commentary Section III: Mobilities and Struggle: Language, Hierarchies, and (Un)belonging Chapter 10. Sarah Muller, Clea Schmidt and Jean-Jacques Weber: Perceived Legitimacy and Translanguaging: Exploring the Interconnectedness of Pedagogy and Policy Chapter 11. Mi Yung Park: Gender Ideologies and Korean Language Learning: Experiences of Female Marriage-Migrants in Rural South Korea Chapter 12. Bernardino Tavares and Kasper Juffermans: Language and (Im)mobility as a Struggle: Cape Verdean Trajectories into Luxembourg Chapter 13. Ana Deumert: Mobilities and Struggle: A Commentary
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The politics of belonging: Who belongs? Who does not? Who decides? This much-needed book invites us to explore such questions by looking into the complex intersectionality of space, language, identity and power. Insightful contributions are brought together to provide rigorous and lucid sociolinguistic analyses of processes of mobility and forms of immobility in rich and varied sites.
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Underlines that language can be a double-edged sword in that it may be the site of struggle while also being the means to overcome struggle

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781788925037
Publisert
2019-10-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Multilingual Matters
Vekt
355 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264

Biographical note

Kristine Horner is a sociolinguist at the University of Sheffield, UK, whose research focuses on the politics of language, language ideologies and multilingualism. She is the co-author (with Jean-Jacques Weber) of Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach (2017, Routledge).

Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain is a sociolinguist at the University of Alberta, Canada, with a research focus on everyday language in use, but always with an eye toward how this use relates to broader social phenomena such as identity, ideology, and globalisation. She is the author of Trans-National English in Social Media Communities (2017, Palgrave MacMillan).