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.
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 ...
Multilingualism across the Lifespan
1st Edition
Edited
By Unn Røyneland, Robert Blackwood
September 25, 2023
This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often ...
Spaces of Multilingualism
1st Edition
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By Robert Blackwood, Unn Røyneland
September 25, 2023
This innovative collection explores critical issues in understanding multilingualism as a defining dimension of identity creation and negotiation in contemporary social life. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, ...
A Sociolinguistics of the South
1st Edition
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By Kathleen Heugh, Christopher Stroud, Kerry Taylor-Leech, Peter I. De Costa
January 09, 2023
This book brings to life initiatives among scholars of the south and north to understand better the intelligences and pluralities of multilingualisms in southern communities and spaces of decoloniality. Chapters follow a longue durée perspective of human co-existence with communal presents, pasts,...
Sign Languages and Linguistic Citizenship: A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Yangon Deaf Community
1st Edition
By Ellen Foote
August 01, 2022
This critical ethnographic account of the Yangon deaf community in Myanmar offers unique insights into the dynamics of a vibrant linguistic and cultural minority community in the region and also sheds further light on broader questions around language policy. The book examines language policies on...
Language, Global Mobilities, Blue-Collar Workers and Blue-collar Workplaces
1st Edition
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By Kellie Gonçalves, Helen Kelly-Holmes
May 30, 2022
This collection brings together global perspectives which critically examine the ways in which language as a resource is used and managed in myriad ways in various blue-collar workplace settings in today’s globalized economy. In focusing on blue-collar work environments, the book sheds further ...
Decolonizing Language Learning, Decolonizing Research: A Critical Ethnography Study in a Mexican University
1st Edition
By Colette Despagne
May 06, 2022
This volume explores the socio-political dynamics, historical forces, and unequal power relationships which mediate language ideologies in Mexican higher education settings, shedding light on the processes by which minority students learn new languages in postcolonial contexts. Drawing on data from...
Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Emmaus
1st Edition
By Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà
April 29, 2022
*RUNNER UP FOR 2022 BAAL BOOK PRIZE* Community, solidarity and multilingualism in a transnational social movement presents a critical sociolinguistic ethnography of the Emmaus movement that analyses linguistic and discursive practices in two local communities in order to provide insight into ...
New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival?
1st Edition
By Bernadette O'Rourke, John Walsh
September 30, 2021
This volume is the first full-length publication to systematically unpack and analyze the linguistic practices and ideologies of "new speakers" specifically in an Irish language context. The book introduces the theoretical foundations of the new speaker framework as it manifests itself in the Irish...
The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders: Multilingualism in Northern European Literature
1st Edition
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By Heidi Grönstrand, Markus Huss, Ralf Kauranen
April 01, 2021
This collection showcases a multivalent approach to the study of literary multilingualism, embodied in contemporary Nordic literature. While previous approaches to literary multilingualism have tended to take a textual or authorship focus, this book advocates for a theoretical perspective which ...
Bilingual Parent Participation in a Divided School Community
1st Edition
By Julia Menard-Warwick
March 31, 2021
This volume theorizes parent participation in a bilingual school community in California, unpacking broader issues around language ideologies, language and power, and parent collaboration in diverse educational contexts. Highlighting data from a two-year ethnographic study of the school community, ...
Multilingual Brazil: Language Resources, Identities and Ideologies in a Globalized World
1st Edition
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By Marilda C. Cavalcanti, Terezinha M. Maher
March 31, 2021
This book brings together cutting edge work by Brazilian researchers on multilingualism in Brazil for an English-speaking readership in one comprehensive volume. Divided into five sections, each with its own introduction, tying together the themes of the book, the volume charts a course for a new ...