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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horner, Kristine, author.

Weber, Jean Jacques, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Social aspects.

Multilingualism.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, [New York] : Routledge, 2018.

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 as a social construct 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.

Contents:

Introducing Multilingualism- Front Cover

Introducing Multilingualism

Title page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Getting started

PART I: Theoretical and methodological considerations

Chapter 1: Introduction

A social approach to multilingualism

A note on terminology

Coping with change

How the book is structured

Chapter 2: Theoretical and methodological framework

The construction of meaning

Dominant vs. critical readings

Towards an ethnographically based discourse analysis

The study of language ideologies

Conclusion

PART II: Multilingualism within and across languages

Chapter 3: What is a language?

Discourse models of language

What is standard English?

'English' is a mere label

The fuzzy boundaries of named languages

Consequences for teaching

Consequences for research

Chapter 4: Language variation and the spread of global languages

African-American English

Caribbean 'nation language'

Singlish

The global spread of English

Two French youth languages

Chapter 5: Revitalization of endangered languages

Australian Aboriginal languages: a history of oppression

Māori in New Zealand: a revitalization success story

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

Hebrew in Israel: the human costs of revitalization

Breton in France: how (not) to standardize

Corsican and the polynomic paradigm

Why Luxembourgish is not an endangered language

PART III: Societal and individual multilingualism

Chapter 6: Societal multilingualism

Ukraine

Switzerland

Singapore

Hong Kong and China

South Africa

Nigeria

Chapter 7: Language and identities

Categorization

Gee's four ways to view identity.

Identity: a peach or an onion?

National, ethnic and racial identity

Code-switching and identity

Translanguaging identities

Conclusion: individual and spatial repertoires

Chapter 8: The interplay between individual and societal multilingualism

The Canadian policy of bilingualism and multiculturalism

Some consequences for First Nations people

Quebec francophone nationalism

Individual bilingualism through institutional monolingualism

Exclusion through French, inclusion through English

Shifting ideologies

Conclusion: the commodification of language

PART IV: Multilingualism in education and other institutional sites

Chapter 9: Flexible vs. fixed multilingualism

US vs. EU language-in-education policy

Case study 1: Luxembourg

Case study 2: Catalonia and the Basque Country

Discussion and conclusion: towards flexible multilingual education

Chapter 10: Mother tongue education or literacy bridges?

The case for mother tongue education: African-American English

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

The problems with mother tongue education

Bridges into literacy

Conclusion: a possible solution for South Africa

Chapter 11: Heritage language education

Language and heritage in the United States

Language and heritage in Ecuador

Language and heritage in England

The dominance of the standard language and purist ideologies

Discussion and conclusion: implications for the EU policy of multilingualism

Chapter 12: Multilingualism in other institutional sites

Multilingualism in the workplace

Language use in multilingual families

PART V: Critical analysis of discourses

Chapter 13: Institutional discourses on language and migration

The discourse of integration

Language testing and citizenship.

Conclusion: unpacking the discourses of integration and language testing

Chapter 14: Media representations of multilingualism

Luxembourg's PISA results and the discourse of deficit

Constructing the UK as an English-only space

The English Only movement in the US

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

Chapter 15: Multilingualism in the new media

Digital ethnography

Language contact phenomena in digital language

The limited multilingualism of the Internet

The policing of new media language

Chapter 16: Linguistic landscape

Limitations of some linguistic landscape analyses

Language contact phenomena on multilingual signs

Some basic distinctions

Contextualizing and historicizing linguistic landscapes

Exploring the context of reception

Discussion and conclusion: discourses in place

PART VI: Further directions in the study of multilingualism

Chapter 17: Conclusion

Further directions in the study of multilingualism

Normalizing multilingualism

Notes on the activities

Notes on the quizzes

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-99773-4

9781138244481