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Multilingual Matters. Tension-Filled English at the Multilingual University : A Bakhtinian Perspective / Maria Kuteeva.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuteeva, Maria, Author.
- Series:
- Multilingual Matters ; 175
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers--Sweden.
- English language.
- Multilingual education--Sweden.
- Multilingual education.
- Universities and colleges--Sweden--Aims and objectives.
- Universities and colleges.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book explores the idea that English in the multilingual university is filled with and surrounded by tensions and employs this fact to examine the use of English in Swedish universities. It offers a fresh way of tracing the links between language perceptions and practices on the ground, and the forces and processes which govern these practices.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Transcription Conventions
- 1 Tension-Filled English at the Multilingual University: Introduction
- Part 1 Multi-Faceted English in Multilingual University Settings
- 2 Exploring Conceptualisations of English: Standard, Lingua Franca and Translingual Practice
- 3 ‘More parallel?’: English in University Language Policies and Wider Discourses
- Part 2 Research Dialogue through ‘Unitary’ Englishes
- 4 Language in Academic Disciplines: The Object of Study and its ‘Voice’
- 5 Towards New ‘Unitary Language’: Language Requirements and Multilingual Researchers’ Perspectives
- Part 3 Language Perceptions and Repertoires: Between Unitary and Heteroglossic Englishes
- 6 Shifting Norms: Students’ Perceptions of English as Standard, Lingua Franca and Translingual Practice
- 7 Tensions Between Present and Desired Repertoires: Translingual Writers’ Lived Experience of English and Polyglossic Selves
- 8 Conclusion: Ways Forward for the Study of Tension-Filled English
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9781800416727
- OCLC:
- 1374540707
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