The Politics of Researching Multilingually

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80041-014-5
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 367 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 746 g

This book offers a unique understanding of how researchers’ linguistic resources, and the languages they use in the research process, are often politically and structurally shaped and constrained, with implications for the reliability of the research. The chapters are written by both experienced and novice researchers, who examine how they negotiated the use of their own, and others’, linguistic and communicative resources when undertaking their research in politically-charged, and linguistically and culturally diverse contexts. The contributing authors are either from the Global South, or engaged in work which is contextualised within the Global South; or they face linguistic structural hegemonies in the Global North which challenge their research processes. They utilise diverse theoretical, methodological and disciplinary approaches to produce a collection of engaging and accessible accounts of researching multilingually in their contexts. These accounts will help readers to make theoretically and methodologically informed choices about the political dimensions of languages in their own research when researching multilingually.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holmes, Prue

Reynolds, Judith

Ganassin, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Alison Phipps: Foreword: Towards a Reparatory Politics of Researching Multilingually

Prue Holmes, Judith Reynolds and Sara Ganassin: Introduction: The Imperative for the Politics of ‘Researching Multilingually’

Part 1: Hegemonic Structures

Chapter 1. Wine Tesseur: Linguistic Hospitality and Listening through Interpreters: Critical Reflections and Recommendations on Linguistic Power Relationships in Multilingual Research

Chapter 2. Shameem Oozeerally: Multilingualism, Shifting Paradigms and the 21st Century: Negotiating Multilingual Research in Teams through the Lens of Complexity

Chapter 3. Lamia Nemouchi and Prue Holmes: Multilingual Researching, Translanguaging and Credibility in Qualitative Research: A Reflexive Account

Chapter 4. Adam Wilson: Publish or perish, publier ou périr? How Research Publication Language Choice is Shaped Among Linguistics Early Career Researchers in France

Part 2: Power Relations

Chapter 5. Alexandra Georgiou: Conducting Multilingual Classroom Research with Refugee Children in Cyprus: Critically Reflecting on Methodological Decisions

Chapter 6. Helina Hookoomsing: Voice and Power Relations: Researching Multilingually with Multilingual Children in Mauritian Pre-primary Schools

Chapter 7. Olga Camila Hernández Morales and Anne-Marie de Mejía: Challenges for Researchers Investigating Coloniality Multilingually in Complex Linguistic Contexts in the Caribbean

Chapter 8. Jessica Chandras: Speaking Marathi Like a Punekar: Learning Class and Caste in India

Part 3. Decolonizing Methodologies

Chapter 9. Julie S. Byrd Clark and Sylvie Roy: Multilingual Research for New Social Realities: Towards a Transdisciplinary Approach

Chapter 10. Erika Kalocsányiová and Malika Shatnawi: Transcribing (Multilingual) Voices: From Fieldwork to Publication

Chapter 11. Bridget Backhaus: Interpreting Cognitive Justice: A Framework for Interpreters as Co-researchers in Postcolonial Multilingual Research

Chapter 12. Michael Richardson: Bilingual Theatre in British Sign Language and English: A Reflection on the Challenges Faced During a Doctoral Applied Theatre Project

Part 4: Decolonizing Languages

Chapter 13. Rebekah R. Gordon: Translanguaging Pedagogy as Methodology: Leveraging the Linguistic and Cultural Repertoires of Researchers and Participants to Mutually Construct Meaning and Build Rapport

Chapter 14. Rosa Alejandra Medina Riveros and Theresa Austin: Decolonizing Research through Translanguaging: Negotiating Practices with Multilingual Teachers in Colombia

Chapter 15. Liliane Meyer Pitton and Larissa Semiramis Schedel: The (Hidden) Politics of Language Choice in Research on Multilingualism: Moments of (Dis)Empowerment

Chapter 16. Christiana Holsapple: Speaking ‘No Language?’: Reflections on (Il)Legitimate Multilingualism from Fieldwork in Gagauzia

Prue Holmes, Judith Reynolds and Sara Ganassin: Afterword

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Reynolds, Judith
Judith Reynolds is Lecturer in multilingual and intercultural communication in the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK. Her research focuses on how language and culture intersect, and how both shape identities, in particular in professional and workplace settings.

Ganassin, Sara
Sara Ganassin is Lecturer in applied linguistics and communication in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Language, Culture and Identity in Two Chinese Community Schools. More than One Way of Being Chinese? (2020, Multilingual Matters).

Holmes, Prue
Prue Holmes is Professor and Director of Research in the School of Education, University of Durham, UK. She is the editor of The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca (with Fred Dervin, 2016, Multilingual Matters).

Prue Holmes is Professor of Intercultural Communication and Education in the School of Education, Durham University, UK. She is the editor of The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca (with Fred Dervin, 2016, Multilingual Matters).

Judith Reynolds is Lecturer in Intercultural Communication in the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research focuses on how language and culture intersect, and how both shape identities, in professional and workplace settings in particular.

Sara Ganassin is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Communication in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Language, Culture and Identity in Two Chinese Community Schools: More than One Way of Being Chinese? (2020, Multilingual Matters).