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.
Agency in Language Policy and Planning:: Critical Inquiries
1st Edition
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By Jeremie Bouchard, Gregory Paul Glasgow
December 18, 2020
This collection brings together theory and ethnographic research from a range of national contexts to offer unique insights into the nature of agency in language policy and planning. Situated within a broader sociological framework, the book explores agentive processes at work in case studies from ...
Critical Perspectives on Linguistic Fixity and Fluidity: Languagised Lives
1st Edition
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By Jürgen Jaspers, Lian Malai Madsen
December 18, 2020
This volume offers a critical perspective on current views on linguistic fixity and fluidity in sociolinguistics and highlights empirical accounts alternative to prevailing trends in the field. Featuring accounts from a broad range of regional contexts, the collection takes stock of such terms as "...
Researching Agency in Language Policy and Planning
1st Edition
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By Gregory Paul Glasgow, Jeremie Bouchard
December 18, 2020
This concise collection features seven studies on agency in language policy and planning across five different national contexts. Building on themes explored in Agency in Language Policy and Planning, this volume highlights the complex relationship between agency and broader ideological discourses,...
Language and Culture on the Margins: Global/Local Interactions
1st Edition
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By Sjaak Kroon, Jos Swanenberg
August 14, 2020
This collection of thirteen essays examines sociolinguistic phenomena in a wide variety of marginal environments, providing both an overview of globalizaiton on the margins and a foundation for an expanded understanding of the processes of linguistic and cultural changes at work in these settings. ...
Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities: Religion in Young Lives
1st Edition
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By Vally Lytra, Dinah Volk, Eve Gregory
August 14, 2020
Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents’ everyday lives and experiences. The volume examines the connections between language and literacy ...
Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual: Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities
1st Edition
By Holly Cashman
August 14, 2020
Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book PrizeThis book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolitan area in the U.S. Southwest. The main focus of the book is to examine participants’ conceptions of their ethnic and sexual identities and how ...
Standardizing Minority Languages: Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery
1st Edition
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By Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De Korne
August 14, 2020
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language ...
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 ...
A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora: Latino Practices, Identities, and Ideologies
1st Edition
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By Rosina Márquez Reiter, Luisa Martín Rojo
April 27, 2017
This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. There is new interest in the ways in which migrants negotiate and renegotiate identities through ...