Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

Edited by Kristine Horner, Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain

Publication date:

11 October 2019

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781788925044

Certain forms of mobility and multilingualism tend to be portrayed as problematic in the public sphere, while others are considered to be unremarkable. Divided into three thematic sections, this book explores the contestation of spaces and the notion of borders, examines the ways in which heritage and authenticity are linked or challenged, and interrogates the intersections between mobility and hierarchies and the ways that language can be linked to notions of belonging and aspirations for mobility. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe, it explores how language functions as both site of struggle and as a means of overcoming struggle. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation.

Introduction: Kristine Horner and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain: Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

Section I: Contested Spaces: Language, Borders and (Un)belonging

Chapter 2. James Hawkey: The Border as a Site of Sociolinguistic Inquiry: Findings from Northern Catalonia

Chapter 3. Mark Payne: Ethnolinguistic Landscaping in Sheffield: The invisible Repertoires of the Slovak Roma

Chapter 4. Yolandi Ribbens-Klein: The Embodiment of Place: Boorlinge, Inkommers and the Struggle to Belong

Chapter 5. Mike Baynham: Contested Spaces: A Commentary

Section II: Trajectories and Heritage: Language, Authenticities and (Un)belonging

Chapter 6. Antonia Rubino: Authenticity, Agency and Mobility in the Discourse of Italian Migrants in Australia

Chapter 7. Katharina König: Speaking with or without an Accent: Language Ideologies and the ‘Problem’ of Linguistic Super-Mobility

Chapter 8. Jessica Bradley and James Simpson: Negative Translanguaging Space: Mobility and Immobility in Inner-City Leeds

Chapter 9. Samantha Litty and Joseph Salmons: Trajectories and Heritage: A Commentary

Section III: Mobilities and Struggle: Language, Hierarchies, and (Un)belonging

Chapter 10. Sarah Muller, Clea Schmidt and Jean-Jacques Weber: Perceived Legitimacy and Translanguaging: Exploring the Interconnectedness of Pedagogy and Policy

Chapter 11. Mi Yung Park: Gender Ideologies and Korean Language Learning: Experiences of Female Marriage-Migrants in Rural South Korea

Chapter 12. Bernardino Tavares and Kasper Juffermans: Language and (Im)mobility as a Struggle: Cape Verdean Trajectories into Luxembourg

Chapter 13. Ana Deumert: Mobilities and Struggle: A Commentary

The politics of belonging: Who belongs? Who does not? Who decides? This much-needed book invites us to explore such questions by looking into the complex intersectionality of space, language, identity and power. Insightful contributions are brought together to provide rigorous and lucid sociolinguistic analyses of processes of mobility and forms of immobility in rich and varied sites.