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.
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 ...
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 ...
Entangled Discourses: South-North Orders of Visibility
1st Edition
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By Caroline Kerfoot, Kenneth Hyltenstam
September 25, 2019
This book uniquely explores the shifting structures of power and unexpected points of intersection – entanglements – at the nexus of North and South as a lens through which to examine the impact of global and local circuits of people, practices and ideas on linguistic, cultural and knowledge ...
Global Portuguese: Linguistic Ideologies in Late Modernity
1st Edition
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By Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes
February 12, 2018
This book aims at deconstructing and problematizing linguistic ideologies related to Portuguese in late modernity and questioning the theoretical presuppositions which have led us to call Portuguese ‘a language.’ Such an endeavor is crucial when we know that Portuguese is a language which is ...
Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context: A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti
1st Edition
By Marky Jean-Pierre
February 12, 2018
This book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students’ academic achievement. Jean-Pierre provides empirical evidence that a relationship exists between language ...
Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide: Transnational Connections and Local Social Realities
1st Edition
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By Li Wei
February 12, 2018
In this volume, Li Wei brings together contributions from well-known and emerging scholars in socio- and anthropological linguistics working on different linguistic and communicative aspects of the Chinese diaspora. The project examines the Chinese diasporic experience from a global, comparative ...