Multilingual repertoires in mobility: navigating between language, culture and identity.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lankiewicz, Hadrian Aleksander, editor.

Wąsikiewicz-Firlej, Emilia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism.

Migration, Internal--Social aspects.

Migration, Internal.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2026.

Summary:

The contributors argue that multilingual repertoires are shaped by various forms of mobility – physical, symbolic, and digital. Across diverse contexts, mobility generates new linguistic resources, reshapes identities, and prompts individuals to negotiate belonging and power. They show that multilingualism is flexible, emotionally charged, and deeply tied to social hierarchies, conflict, and shifting ideologies. While mobility can foster hybridity and creativity, it can also reinforce exclusion and nationalism. Overall, the volume highlights multilingualism as dynamic, contested, and central to understanding contemporary social life.

Contents:

Multilingual Repertoires in Mobility in the Theoretical Perspective: An Introduction / Hadrian A. Lankiewicz, Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej

Navigating Memoryscapes: Multilingual Palimpsests in the Linguistic Landscapes of Polish Bunkers / Andrzej Narloch, Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej

Language Is like the Weather, So Is Identity: An Ecolinguistic Cross-Case Study of Two Adult Multilinguals with Respect to L1 Attrition / Hadrian A. Lankiewicz

Multilingual Lives in Motion: Language Repertoires, Identity, and Cultural Positioning among Polish, Danish, English and Russian Speakers in Denmark: A Case Study / Magdalena Grabowska

Linguistic Repertoires in Migration Contexts with Relevance to Legal Proceedings: When Homonymic Clash Is Used to Insult / Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak

From Fierce Dogs to Shooed Prey: Repertoires of Othering and Belonging in Mobility in Times of War on the Basis of Polish Online Reactions to the War in Ukraine / Magdalena Zabielska

Building Identity: The Concept of the “Language Issue” in Ukrainian Media Discourse / Tatiana Kananowicz

Stationary, Yet International: Language, Culture and Identity in Professional Mobility / Magdalena Toporek

The Role of Multilingualism in the Construction of National Identities: A Sociolinguistic Perspective / Maciej Pławski

When Love Speaks a Borrowed Tongue: Linguistic Mobility, Translanguaging, and Transnational Identity in Multilingual Couples / Grzegorz Grzegorczyk, Kamila Makowska

Identity in Multilingual and Multicultural Context in Self-Narration: A Case Study / Jolanta Hinc

Mobility as a Bridge between Language, Identity and Culture: Insights from a Swedish-Korean Heritage Case / Julia Kaczorek

Esperanto and the Multilingual Self / Grisha Gasparyan

Translanguaging through the Language-Learning Process: How Bi- and Multilingual Children Build Their Language Identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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