Researching Multilingually : Conceptual and Methodological Failures, Struggles and Successes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Bridget.

Contributor:

Seilstad, Brian.

Series:

Researching Multilingually Series

Researching Multilingually Series ; v.9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Research--Methodology.

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2025.

Summary:

This book examines what 'researching multilingually' means in practice and theory. The chapter authors reflect on the process of conducting, analyzing and reporting multilingual research in various settings, and propose new ways of understanding best practices while also addressing challenges and at times 'failures' in the research process.

Contents:

Intro

DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/GOODMA5693

Contents

Contributors

1 Making Meaning of 'Researching Multilingually'

Part 1 Revisiting and Reimagining Multilingual Approaches to Research

2 Research Practice as a Multilingual Habitus

3 Bourdieu and Sayad's Contributions to Researching Multilingually: Creating Knowledge through Postmonolingual Theorising

4 Translanguaging in Writing for Academic and Publication Purposes: Autoethnographic Insights from the Japanese Tertiary Context

5 Making an Original Contribution to Transknowledging: Researching Multilingually through Postmonolingual Theorising

Part 2 Wrestling with the Complexity of Researching Multilingually

6 Conducting Research Multilingually in an English-Medium University: Reflexive Narratives of a Student and a Supervisor

7 Navigating Languages and Identities: A Reflexive Account of Learning to Research Multilingually

8 When Multilingualism Fails: Positioning 'Failure' in Intergenerational Language Transmission, Language Learning and Language Teaching

9 A Translingual Perspective on Data Collection and Analysis in Computer-Mediated Communication

10 Harnessing Benefits of Multilingual Data Collection: An Examination of Two Critical Sites of Translation

Part 3 Embracing the Challenges of Researching Multilingually

11 Transcribing and Translating Multilingual Data: Discovering the Third Space, Imagined Communities and the Malin Kundang Curse

12 Researching Multilingual, Multimodal Insights into the Online Learning Experience: Getting in the Zone

13 A New Researcher's Journey of Researching Transnationally and Multilingually: A Practical Guide Reflecting on Significance and Methodological Changes

14 'Am I an Insider or an Outsider?' The Dilemmas of Positionality in One's Own Multilingual Community.

15 Navigating Multilingual Data in Sociolinguistics: Challenges and Strategies for Transcription, Translation and Presentation

16 English Hegemony Hovers: Monolingual Reflections on Multilingual Research with Newly Settled Families in Aotearoa New Zealand

17 Translanguaging and its Methodological Implications for Multilingual Research: A Reflection from Ethnographic Work with Adolescent Newcomers in Superdiverse Central Ohio

18 Reflections and Future Directions for Researching Multilingually

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781788925716

1788925718

9781788925709

178892570X

OCLC:

1474239663