Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography

Herausgeber: Gardner, Sheena; Martin-Jones, Marilyn

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Produktbeschreibung

The last two decades have seen a rapidly growing interest, internationally, in multilingualism and multilingual literacy and in the ways in which multilingualism is represented in the media and in public discourse. This is largely due to the significant linguistic, cultural and demographic changes that have been ushered in by globalisation, transnational population flows, the advent of new technology and the changing political and economic landscape of Europe and the accession of new nation-states to the European Union. In addressing the changing field of multilingualism, this volume hopes to: to focus on cutting edge research on multilingualism which incorporates critical, interpretive perspectives to exemplify the range of approaches to description and analysis which are currently employed within this strand of research on multilingualism to consider the methodological issues which arise in particular kinds of studies in particular sociolinguistic spaces.

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Over the last twenty years, sociolinguistic research on multilingualism has been transformed. Two processes have been at work: first, an epistemological shift to a critical ethnographic approach, which has contributed to a larger turn toward post-structuralist perspectives on social life. Second, the effects of globalization-transnational population flows, new communication technologies, transformations in the political and economic landscape-have sparked increasing concern about the implications of these changes for our understanding of the relationship between language and society. A new sociolinguistics of multilingualism is being forged: one that takes account of the new communicative order, while retaining a central concern with the processes in the construction of social difference. The contributors to this volume have been at the forefront of these epistemological shifts. They write here about the conceptual and methodological challenges posed by these shifts, and the profound changes that we are witnessing in the late modern era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780415874946
• ISBN-10: 0415874947
• Artikelnr.: 29920258

Autorenporträt

Sheena Gardner is Head of the Department of English and Languages at Coventry University, UK. Marilyn Martin-Jones is Emeritus Professor and former Director of the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: Introduction: Multilingualism, discourse and ethnography
Marilyn Martin-Jones and Sheena Gardner Section 1: Linking local practices
to wider social processes Introduction Li Wei 1. Rethinking sociolinguistic
ethnography: from community and identity to process and practice Monica
Heller 2. Sociolinguistic perspectives on language and multilingualism in
institutions Melissa G. Moyer 3. Unpicking agency in sociolinguistic
research with migrants David Block Section 2: Researching identities and
identities in research practice Introduction Marilyn Martin-Jones 4.
Pontian Greek adolescents: the negotiation of identities in an urban
context in northern Greece Eleni Mariou 5. Negotiation of identities across
times and spaces Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese 6. Authenticity,
legitimacy and power: critical ethnography and identity politics Frances
Giampapa Section 3: Taking account of trajectories: multilingualism across
social spaces Introduction Monica Heller 7. Cultural geography and the
re-theorization of sociolinguistic space Mike Baynham 8. Diaspora youth,
ancestral languages, and English as 'translation' in multilingual space
Gill Cressey Section 4: Developing visual and semiotic perspectives on
multilingualism Introduction Mark Sebba 9. Material ethnographies of
multilingualism: Linguistic landscapes in the township of Khayelitsha
Christopher Stroud and Sibonile Mpendukana 10. Experiences and expressions
of multilingualism: visual ethnography and discourse analysis in research
with Sámi children Sari Pietikäinen 11. Ethnographic perspectives on
multilingual computer-mediated discourse: insights from Finnish football
forums on the Web Samu Kytölä and Jannis Androutsopoulos 12. Multilingual
Nation online? Possibilities and constraints on the BBC Voices website
Bethan Davies, Tommaso M. Milani and Will Turner 13. English as an
Additional Language policy-rendered theory and classroom interaction
Constant Leung 14. Young learner perspectives through researcher-initiated
role play Aizan Yaacob and Sheena Gardner 15. Doing research in
multilingual schools: Shifting research positioning in response to dialogic
methods Carla Jonsson 16. Ideologies and issues of access in multilingual
school ethnography: a French example Florence Bonacina Section 6: Building
researcher-researched relationships Introduction Angela Creese 17. The
advantages of research in familiar locales, viewed from the perspectives of
researcher and researched: reflections on ethnographic fieldwork in
Mozambique Feliciano Chimbutane 18. A critical linguistic ethnographic
approach to language disabilities in multilingual families Deirdre Martin
19. 'Part of the puzzle': the retrospective interview as reflexive practice
in collaborative ethnographic research Gabriele Budach 20. Collaborative
practice, linguistic anthropological inquiry and the mediation between
researcher and practitioner discourses Alexandra Jaffe