Remix Multilingualism

Author : Quentin Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472591142

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"Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage. This book is an ethnographic study of multilingual remixing achieved by highly multilingual participants in the local hip hop culture of Cape Town. In globalised societies today previously marginalized speakers are carving out new and innovating spaces to put on display their voices and identities through the creative use of multilingualism. This book contributes to the development of new conceptual insights and theoretical developments on multilingualism in the global South by applying the notions of stylization, performance, performativity, entextualisation and enregisterment. This takes place through interviews, performance analysis and interactional analysis, showing how young multilingual speakers stage different personae, styles, registers and language varieties.

Author : Quentin Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472591135

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"Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage. This book is an ethnographic study of multilingual remixing achieved by highly multilingual participants in the local hip hop culture of Cape Town. In globalised societies today previously marginalized speakers are carving out new and innovating spaces to put on display their voices and identities through the creative use of multilingualism. This book contributes to the development of new conceptual insights and theoretical developments on multilingualism in the global South by applying the notions of stylization, performance, performativity, entextualisation and enregisterment. This takes place through interviews, performance analysis and interactional analysis, showing how young multilingual speakers stage different personae, styles, registers and language varieties.

Author : Quentin Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Multilingualism
ISBN : 1474295428

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Author : Quentin Williams,Ana Deumert,Tommaso M. Milani
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800415331

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Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship by Quentin Williams,Ana Deumert,Tommaso M. Milani Pdf

This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies. The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and radical social transformations in democracies in the north and south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics. Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.

Author : Jerry Won Lee,Sender Dovchin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429832116

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Translinguistics by Jerry Won Lee,Sender Dovchin Pdf

Translinguistics represents a powerful alternative to conventional paradigms of language such as bilingualism and code-switching, which assume the compartmentalization of different 'languages' into fixed and arbitrary boundaries. Translinguistics more accurately reflects the fluid use of linguistic and semiotic resources in diverse communities. This ground-breaking volume showcases work from leading as well as emerging scholars in sociolinguistics and other language-oriented disciplines and collectively explores and aims to reconcile the distinction between 'innovation' and 'ordinariness' in translinguistics. Features of this book include: 18 chapters from 28 scholars, representing a range of academic disciplines and institutions from 11 countries around the world; research on understudied communities and geographic contexts, including those of Latin America, South Asia, and Central Asia; several chapters devoted to the diversity of communication in digital contexts. Edited by two of the most innovative scholars in the field, Translinguistics: Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness is essential reading for scholars and students interested in the question of multilingualism across a variety of subject areas.

Author : Geneva Napoleon Smitherman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000534078

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My Soul Look Back in Wonder by Geneva Napoleon Smitherman Pdf

This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," the pioneering linguist often referred to as the "Queen of Black Language." In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social transformation and the academic, intellectual, linguistic, and societal debates that shaped her groundbreaking work as a Black Studies O.G. and a Womanist scholar-activist of African American Language. These eleven essays narrate the development of Dr. G’s race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. In My Soul Look Back In Wonder, Dr. G links the personal to the professional and the political, situating the struggles, and successes, of a Black woman in the Academy within the historical experiences and development of her people. As Dr. G enters her eighth decade, in this Black Lives Matter historical moment, she seeks to share the meaning and purpose of a life of study and struggle and its significance for all those who seek racial and social justice today.

Author : Larissa Aronin,David Singleton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274984

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Multilingualism by Larissa Aronin,David Singleton Pdf

This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book’s focus is specifically on the knowledge and use of multiple languages, but its treatment of the topic is very wide-ranging. It deals with both bilingualism and polyglottism, at the level of the individual speaker as well as at the societal level. The volume addresses not only linguistic facets of multilingualism but also multilingualism’s cultural, sociological, educational, and psychological dimensions, moving from classic perspectives to recent and emerging directions of interest. The book’s extensive coverage takes in topics ranging from the ‘new linguistic dispensation’ in our globalized world to child development in multilingual environments, from the classification of multilingual groupings to characteristics of the multilingual mind. This breadth makes Multilingualism an ideal advanced textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the areas of linguistics, education and the social sciences.

Author : Bahar Otcu-Grillman,Maryam Borjian
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800410862

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Remaking Multilingualism by Bahar Otcu-Grillman,Maryam Borjian Pdf

This book is both a collection of cutting-edge research in the areas of multilingualism, translanguaging and bilingual education by leading scholars in these fields, and a tribute to the research and influence of Ofelia García. The chapters use a variety of methodological approaches and research designs to address topics across language policy, sociology of language and bilingual education, representing the full breadth of Ofelia García’s scholarship. Combined with the empirical chapters are more personal chapters which testify to the contributions Ofelia has made as a mentor, colleague and friend. The book recognizes Ofelia García’s place at the centre of a movement to remake multilingualism in the service of linguistic equality, justice, pluralism, diversity and inclusion in schools and societies worldwide.

Author : Simona Montanari,Suzanne Quay
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501507908

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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingualism by Simona Montanari,Suzanne Quay Pdf

Multilingualism is a typical aspect of everyday life for most of the world’s population; it has existed since the beginning of humanity and among individuals of all backgrounds. Nonetheless, it has often been treated as a variant of bilingualism or as a phenomenon unique to individual areas of study. The purpose of this book is to review current knowledge about the acquisition, use and loss of multiple languages using a multidisciplinary perspective, highlighting the common themes and stimulating insights that can emerge when multilingualism is viewed from different but related areas of investigation. The chapters focus on research evidence, showing that multilingualism is a complex phenomenon that involves a myriad of linguistic and extra-linguistic forces and that should be studied in its own right as evidence of human potential and capacity for language. The book is primarily addressed to students and scholars interested in deepening their understanding of the different facets of multilingualism, including the individual and societal circumstances that contribute to it, the cognitive and neural mechanisms that make it possible, and the dynamics involved in the acquisition, use and loss of multiple languages.

Author : Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474238335

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Linguanomics by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun Pdf

Globalization, the Internet and an era of mass travel have combined to produce a world with a language mix on a huge scale. Linguanomics explains this multilingualism in a material, economic and cultural sense. What is the effect of this multilingualism on society, organizations and individuals? What are the economic benefits and drawbacks? Should we invest in language skills? Should there be interventionist policies, and if so, at what level? Should there be a global lingua mundi? The debate surrounding multilingualism is often clouded by emotion and misconception. With an analysis devoid of rhetoric, Gabrielle Hogan-Brun takes an objective look at this charged area. The result is Linguanomics: a major step towards a clearer understanding of the market potential of multilingualism, its benefits, costs and points of contention. Asking significant questions of profound concern to the future of global collaboration, Linguanomics is an essential guide to students, teachers, policy makers and politicians and anyone who cares about the role of language in the modern world.

Author : Sammy Beban Chumbow
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789232264

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Multilingualism and Bilingualism by Sammy Beban Chumbow Pdf

Research in the area of bilingualism and multilingualism invariably produces fascinating insights. In the Europe of yesteryears, the paradigm of one nation one language was dominant and fashionable as a nation-building ideology that multilingualism was considered a curse, a demon that had to be exorcised. Today, the avalanche of empirical evidence of research findings has established multilingualism and pluralism as an ideal for national development. The nine chapters of this book provide further elucidations of the issue of benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism and also provide original research findings on developments in the areas of psychological dimensions of bilingualism and bilingualism in information retrieval systems. The book by its illuminating description and insightful analysis of issues of bilingualism will be of significant interest to scholars, researchers, and all concerned with bilingualism and multilingualism from whatever perspective.

Author : John C. Maher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : 9780198724995

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Multilingualism by John C. Maher Pdf

John C. Maher explains why societies everywhere have become more multilingual, despite the disappearance of hundreds of the world languages. He considers our notion of language as national or cultural identities, and discusses why nations cluster and survive around particular languages even as some territories pursue autonomy or nationhood.

Author : David Gramling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108490306

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The Invention of Multilingualism by David Gramling Pdf

Explores what multilingualism means today, in a historical moment when it is under intense discursive and technological pressure.

Author : Anat Stavans,Charlotte Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316241080

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Multilingualism by Anat Stavans,Charlotte Hoffmann Pdf

How do children and adults become multilingual? How do they use their languages? What influence does being multilingual have on their identities? What is the social impact of multilingualism today and how do societies accommodate it? These are among the fascinating questions examined by this book. Exploring multilingualism in individuals and in society at large, Stavans and Hoffmann argue that it evolves not from one factor in particular, but from a vast range of environmental and personal influences and circumstances: from migration to globalisation, from the spread of English to a revived interest in minority languages, from social mobility to intermarriage. The book shows the important role of education in helping to promote or maintain pupils' multilingual language competence and multilingual literacy, and in helping to challenge traditional monolingual attitudes. A clear and incisive account of this growing phenomenon, it is essential reading for students, teachers and policy-makers alike.

Author : Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780275999131

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Living Languages by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Pdf

Globalization is on everyone's tongue, and the discussion is not only limited to economic exchange, but expands to the intermingling of cultural values. To be truly successful in the international arena, whether as an immigrant, student, businessperson, or tourist, openness toward other cultures is vital and the most obvious door to those cultures is through language. Learning a second language is no longer an option for many, it is both a survival tool and an opportunity. This book is an aid to parents, educators, researchers, and individuals who want facts about foreign language learning in order to apply concrete tools to maximize their potential in this area, independent of their age. This book examines the various factors in successful multilingualism across the lifespan, discussing groups such as those lucky enough to enjoy bilingualism from birth to those who become foreign language learners in adulthood. Special attention is paid to a critique of the academic critical years concept and the question, how long does it take a non-native speaker to become fluent? While many are concerned with bilingualism, millions around the world live with three or more languages. For those considering adding a third language, this book looks at the benefits of bilingualism that transfer to trilingualism. Finally, the book establishes methods for teaching foreign languages and hints for home support that maximize each person's potential for languages.