ISBN:
0415874947
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9780203143179
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9780415874946
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 360 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
Series Statement:
Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography
DDC:
306.44/6
Keywords:
Multilingualism
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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 soc
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Multilingualism, Discourse and Ethnography; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Multilingualism, Discourse and Ethnography; Part I Linking Local Practices to Wider Social Processes; Introduction; 1 Rethinking Sociolinguistic Ethnography From Community and Identity to Process and Practice; 2 Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Language and Multilingualism in Institutions; 3 Unpicking Agency in Sociolinguistic Research with Migrants; Part II Researching Identities and Identities in Research Practice; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Pontian Greek Adolescents The Negotiation of Identities in an Urban Context in Northern Greece5 Negotiation of Identities across Times and Spaces; 6 Authenticity, Legitimacy and Power Critical Ethnography and Identity Politics; Part III Taking Account of Trajectories Multilingualism across Social Spaces; Introduction; 7 Cultural Geography and the Retheorisation of Sociolinguistic Space; 8 Diaspora Youth, Ancestral Languages and English as 'Translation' in Multilingual Space; Part IV Visual and Semiotic Perspectives on Multilingualism; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Material Ethnographies of Multilingualism Linguistic Landscapes in the Township of Khayelitsha10 Experiences and Expressions of Multilingualism Visual Ethnography and Discourse Analysis in Research with Sámi Children; 11 Ethnographic Perspectives on Multilingual Computer-Mediated Discourse Insights from Finnish Football Forums on the Web; 12 Multilingual Nation Online? Possibilities and Constraints on the BBC Voices Website; Part V Interpreting Voices from the Classroom; Introduction; 13 English as an Additional Language Policy-Rendered Theory and Classroom Interaction
Description / Table of Contents:
14 Young Learner Perspectives through Researcher-Initiated Role Play15 Doing Ethnography in Multilingual Schools Shifting Research Positioning in Response to Dialogic Methods; 16 Ideologies and Issues of Access in Multilingual School Ethnography A French Example; Part VI Building Researcher-Researched Relationships; Introduction; 17 The Advantages of Research in Familiar Locales, Viewed from the Perspectives of Researcher and Researched Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork in Mozambique; 18 A Critical Linguistic Ethnographic Approach to Language Disabilities in Multilingual Families
Description / Table of Contents:
19 "Part of the Puzzle" The Retrospective Interview as Reflexive Practice in Collaborative Ethnographic Research20 Collaborative Practice, Linguistic Anthropological Enquiry and Mediation between Researcher and Practitioner Discourses; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
