Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

Published by Multilingual Matters 2019

Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

Edited by: Kristine Horner and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain

In the series Encounters

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788925051

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About this book

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

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.

Author / Editor information

Horner Kristine :

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).

Dailey-O'Cain Jennifer :

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).

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).

Reviews

With a broad spectrum of research conducted in a wide range of contexts, this volume presents a vivid picture of multilingualism, (im)mobilities and spaces of belonging. It will serve as a highly recommended resource to readers who wish to understand the pivotal issue of language, empowerment and boundary making as well as breaking from a social-spatial perspective in the era of late modernity.

This book uniquely challenges notions of identity, authenticity, (un)belonging and (im)mobility. Several theories and methodologies, from linguistic landscapes to discourse analysis, address contexts of borders, transnational migration, and super-mobility. In dealing with some of today’s most burning issues, including place as shifting rather than fixed, the book stresses unpredictability as key to understanding today’s world.

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1 Introduction: Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain and Kristine Horner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Contested Spaces: Language, Borders and (Un)belonging
2 The Border as a Site of Sociolinguistic Inquiry: Findings from Northern Catalonia James Hawkey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3 Ethnolinguistic Landscaping in Sheffield: The Invisible Repertoires of the Slovak Roma Mark Payne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
4 The Embodiment of Place: Boorlinge, Inkommers and the Struggle to Belong Yolandi Ribbens-Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
5 Contested Spaces: A Commentary Mike Baynham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Part 2: Trajectories and Heritage: Language, Authenticities and (Un)belonging
6 Authenticity, Agency and Mobility in the Discourse of Italian Migrants in Australia Antonia Rubino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
7 Speaking with or without an Accent: Language Ideologies and the ‘Problem’ of Linguistic Super-Mobility Katharina König Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8 Negative Translanguaging Space: Mobility and Immobility in Inner-City Leeds James Simpson and Jessica Bradley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
9 Trajectories and Heritage: A Commentary Joseph Salmons and Samantha Litty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Part 3: Mobilities and Struggle: Language, Hierarchies, and (Un)belonging
10 Perceived Legitimacy and Translanguaging: Exploring the Interconnectedness of Pedagogy and Policy Jean-Jacques Weber, Clea Schmidt and Sarah Muller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
11 Gender Ideologies and Korean Language Learning: Experiences of Female Marriage-Migrants in Rural South Korea Mi Yung Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
12 Language and (Im)mobility as a Struggle: Cape Verdean Trajectories into Luxembourg Kasper Juffermans and Bernardino Tavares Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
13 Mobilities and Struggle: A Commentary Ana Deumert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: Multilingualism; migration; space; identity; power; linguistic ethnography; Sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; language and globalization

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Published: October 11, 2019
ISBN: 9781788925051