Multilingualism

This book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students’ academic achievement, using Haiti as its focus...

This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity, which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship, are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to specif..

Contributors to this volume introduce a range of approaches applied to different types of multilingual texts (this term is used as an inclusive one, which covers both code-switching in a traditional sense and other types of language mixing). The collection covers a range of different languages (incl..

The book brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The collection examines local and global flows of people, language, and literacy in relation to social practic..

The book brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The collection examines local and global flows of people, language, and literacy in relation to social practic..

This book brings together cutting edge work by Brazilian researchers on multilingualism in Brazil for an English-speaking readership in one comprehensive volume.This volume is key reading for researchers in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, cultural studies, and Latin A..

This book deals with multilingualism and its relationship with L2 acquisition, and presents new perspectives on current research on this field. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Multilingualism...

This volume brings together contributions from well-known and emerging scholars in socio- and anthropological linguistics working on different linguistic and communicative aspects of the Chinese diaspora. The project examines the Chinese diasporic experience from a global, comparative perspective, w..

This is an accessible and comprehensive overview of multilingualism and multilingual practices on the internet. Topics range from language choice and code-switching, the construction of multilingual practices and identities online, minority languages, translating content and researching multilingual..

In addressing the changing field of multilingualism, the aims of this volume are: _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ to focus on cutting edge research on multilingualism which incorporates critical, interpretive perspectives _x005F_x000D_ to exemplify the range of approaches to description and analysis whi..

Showcasing innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, this volume offers an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents’ everyday lives and experiences. The volume examines the connections between language and literacy practices and social identities associate..

The book is an analysis of language and identity of LGBTQ Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona (USA). It aims to queer the study of bilingualism and U.S. Spanish, introducing ‘jotería linguistics’, an adamantly intersectional approach to language and sexuality among the second largest Spanish-speaki..