Introducing multilingualism : a social approach / Kristine Horner and Jean-Jacques Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horner, Kristine, author.

Weber, Jean Jacques, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Social aspects.

Multilingualism.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 308 pages.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Introducing Multilingualism is a comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to the dynamic field of multilingualism. Adopting a compelling social and critical approach and covering important social and educational issues, the authors expertly guide readers through the established theories, leading them to question dominant discourses on subjects such as integration, heritage and language testing. This second edition has been fully revised and updated, featuring new chapters on multilingualism in new media, the workplace and the family. Other key topics include: language contact and variation, language and identity, the differences between individual and societal multilingualism, translanguaging, flexible multilingual education. With a wide range of engaging activities and quizzes and a comprehensive selection of case studies from around the world, this is essential reading for undergraduate students and postgraduate students new to studying multilingualism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Theoretical and methodological considerations 1

1 Introduction 3

A social approach to multilingualism 5

A note on terminology 6

Coping with change 7

How the book is structured 9

2 Theoretical and methodological framework 15

The construction of meaning 15

Dominant vs. critical readings 16

Towards an ethnographically based discourse analysis 18

The study of language ideologies 20

Conclusion 26

Part II Multilingualism within and across languages 33

3 What is a language? 35

Discourse models of language 35

What is standard English? 36

'English' is a mere label 37

The fuzzy boundaries of named languages 37

Consequences for teaching 42

Consequences for research 43

Conclusion 45

4 Language variation and the spread of global languages 49

African-American English 50

Caribbean 'nation language' 52

Singlish 55

The global spread of English 56

Two Trench youth languages 59

Conclusion 62

5 Revitalization of endangered languages 67

Australian Aboriginal languages: a history of oppression 68

Maori in New Zealand: a revitalization success story 70

Sámi and Kven in Norway: differential positionings on the success-failure continuum 71

Hebrew in Israel: the human costs of revitalization 74

Breton in France: how (not) to standardize 75

Corsican and the polynomic paradigm 76

Why Luxembourgish is not an endangered language 77

Conclusion 79

Part III Societal and individual multilingualism 87

6 Societal multilingualism 89

Ukraine 90

Switzerland 91

Singapore 92

Hong Kong and China 94

South Africa 97

Nigeria 99

Conclusion 100

7 Language and identities 104

Categorization 104

Gee's four ways to view identity 106

Identity: a peach or an onion? 107

National, ethnic and racial identity 108

Code-switching and identity 110

Translanguaging identities 117

Conclusion: individual and spatial repertoires 118

8 The interplay between individual and societal multilingualism 124

The Canadian policy of bilingualism and multiculturalism 124

Some consequences for First Nations people 125

Quebec francophone nationalism 126

Individual bilingualism through institutional monolingualism 127

Exclusion through French, inclusion through English 129

Shifting ideologies 129

Conclusion: the commodification of language 130

Part IV Multilingualism in education and other institutional sites 137

9 Flexible vs. fixed multilingualism 139

US vs. EU language-in-education policy 141

Case study 1: Luxembourg 143

Case study 2: Catalonia and the Basque Country 146

Discussion and conclusion: towards flexible multilingual education 149

10 Mother tongue education or literacy bridges? 158

The case for mother tongue education: African-American English 158

The case against mother tongue education (in four steps): South Africa 161

The problems with mother tongue education 165

Bridges into literacy 166

Conclusion: a possible solution for South Africa 168

11 Heritage language education 174

Language and heritage in the United States 175

Language and heritage in Ecuador 176

Language and heritage in England 178

The dominance of the standard language, and purist ideologies 182

Discussion and conclusion: implications for the EU policy of multilingualism 184

12 Multilingualism in other institutional sites 191

Multilingualism in the workplace 191

Language use in multilingual families 196

Conclusion 200

Part V Critical analysis of discourses 205

13 Institutional discourses on language and migration 207

The discourse of integration 207

Language testing and citizenship 216

Conclusion: unpacking the discourses of integration and language testing 220

14 Media representations of multilingualism 226

Luxembourg's PISA results and the discourse of deficit 227

Constructing the UK as an English-only space 230

The English Only movement in the US 233

Conclusion: a historical perspective on the one nation-one language ideology 236

15 Multilingualism in the new media 241

Digital ethnography 242

Language contact phenomena in digital language 243

The limited multilingualism of the Internet 246

The policing of new media language 248

Conclusion 251

16 Linguistic landscape 255

Limitations of some linguistic landscape analyses 255

Language contact phenomena on multilingual signs 257

Some, basic distinctions 259

Contextualizing and historicizing linguistic landscapes 260

Exploring the context of reception 264

Discussion and conclusion: discourses in place 265

Part VI Further directions in the study of multilingualism 275

17 Conclusion 277

Further directions in the study of nudtilingualism 278

Normalizing multilingualism 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781351997737

1351997734

Publisher Number:

99989049358

40027622776

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