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.
A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora: Latino Practices, Identities, and Ideologies
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Language, Literacy and Diversity: Moving Words
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Stroud, Mastin Prinsloo
April 27, 2017
Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in ...
Bilingual Education and Language Policy in the Global South
1st Edition
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By Jo Arthur Shoba, Feliciano Chimbutane
July 16, 2015
This volume considers a range of ways in which bilingual programs can make a contribution to aspects of human and economic development in the global South. The authors examine the consequences of different policies, programs, and pedagogies for learners and local communities through recent ...
Urban Schools and English Language Education in Late Modern China: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography
1st Edition
By Miguel Pérez-Milans
July 16, 2015
*Shortlisted for the 2014 BAAL Book Prize* *Winner of The University of Hong Kong's Faculty Early Career Research Output Award for outstanding book publication, by the Faculty of Education* This book explores the meaning of modernization in contemporary Chinese education. It examines the ...
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing: Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse
1st Edition
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By Mark Sebba, Shahrzad Mahootian, Carla Jonsson
July 17, 2014
"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a ...
Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography
1st Edition
Edited
By Sheena Gardner, Marilyn Martin-Jones
July 17, 2014
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, ...
Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit
1st Edition
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By Alexandre Duchêne, Monica Heller
June 07, 2013
This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to ...