Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
About the Book Series
Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism is devoted to the publishing of original research, of global scope and relevance, which incorporates critical and post-structuralist perspectives. The series also seeks to reflect different strands of empirical work which are interpretive, ethnographic and multimodal in nature and which embrace new epistemologies and new research methods.
Re-imagining Language and Communication in Collaborative Projects: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Future
1st Edition
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By Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà, Miguel Pérez-Milans
June 15, 2025
This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, present, and future towards confronting structural inequalities. Bringing together work from ...
Russian as a Transnational Language: Resonance, Remembrance, Renewal
1st Edition
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By Olga Solovova, Sabina Vakser
May 05, 2025
This collection contributes to emerging work in critical sociolinguistics, using a multidisciplinary and multiscalar approach to understanding the diasporic experience in the Russian-speaking world. The volume expands on research in the sociolinguistics of mobility, multilingualism, and diaspora ...
Migration, Adult Language Learning and Multilingualism: Critical Sociolinguistics Research with New Speakers of Faroese
1st Edition
By Anna-Elisabeth Holm
April 13, 2025
This book extends lines of inquiry at the nexus of migration, adult language learning, and multilingualism, illuminating the lived experiences of migrants in the Faroe Islands and critical new insights into sociolinguistics from the periphery. Building on recent epistemological shifts in research ...
Multilingual Families in a Digital Age: Mediational Repertoires and Transnational Practices
1st Edition
By Kristin Vold Lexander, Jannis Androutsopoulos
March 12, 2025
*RUNNER UP FOR 2024 BAAL BOOK PRIZE* This book offers new insights into transnational family life in today’s digital age, exploring the media resources and language practices parents and children employ toward maintaining social relationships in digital interactions and constructing transnational ...
Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands: The Challenge of Trieste
1st Edition
By Marianna Deganutti
December 18, 2024
This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland located at the intersection between the Latin, Germanic and Slav civilisations. By focusing on some of the most representative modern writers operating in the...
Greek in Minoritized Contexts: Identities, Authenticities, and Institutions
1st Edition
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By Matthew John Hadodo, Petros Karatsareas, Elena Ioannidou
December 05, 2024
This volume examines constructions of Greekness and Greek-speakerhood in geographical and sociohistorical contexts where Greek speakers are minoritised, and Greek is not hegemonic. Authors explore the sociolinguistic outcomes that arise from minoritisation, distant and more recent history, ...
Multilingual Texts and Practices in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
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By Peter Auger, Sheldon Brammall
October 08, 2024
This collection offers a cross-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which multilingual practices were embedded in early modern European literary culture, opening up a dynamic dialogue between contemporary multilingual practices and scholarly work on early modern history and literature. The ...
Minority Language Learning for Adult Migrants in Europe
1st Edition
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By James Simpson, Sari Pöyhönen
September 27, 2024
This collection examines the learning and teaching of minority languages for adult migrants in Europe, with studies featuring perspectives from adult migrants themselves as well as local authorities, teachers, education planners and representatives from working life. The volume provides context on ...
Global CLIL: Critical, Ethnographic and Language Policy Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Eva Codó
August 26, 2024
This collection turns a critical lens on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) research, making the case for a sociolinguistic-informed approach towards investigating social inequalities and making visible issues, processes and actors overlooked in CLIL research. The volume seeks to ...
Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power
1st Edition
By Rosaleen Howard
August 26, 2024
This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, demonstrating how issues of language and power throw light on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state. Based on the author’s...
Southernizing Sociolinguistics: Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in Language in the Global South
1st Edition
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By Bassey E. Antia, Sinfree Makoni
August 26, 2024
This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern sociolinguistics. It showcases voices from the Global South that substitute alternative and complementary narrations of the link between language and society for canonical renditions of the field. Drawing on ...
Language Education in Multilingual Colombia: Critical Perspectives and Voices from the Field
1st Edition
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By Norbella Miranda, Anne-Marie de Mejía, Silvia Valencia Giraldo
May 27, 2024
This collection brings together cutting-edge research and theoretical discussions on the linguistic, cultural, and political forces that shape multilingual Colombia, highlighting the country’s unique sociolinguistic landscape and offering new insights into multilingualism in the Global South. The ...