The Multilingual Citizen

Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78309-964-1
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 303 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to support. The chapters discuss issues of decoloniality and multilingualism in the global South, and together retheorize how to accommodate diversity in complexly multilingual/ multicultural societies. Offering a framework anchored in transformative notions of democratic and reflexive citizenship, it prompts readers to critically rethink how existing contemporary frameworks such as Linguistic Human Rights rest on disempowering forms of multilingualism that channel discourses of diversity into specific predetermined cultural and linguistic identities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lim, Lisa

Stroud, Christopher

Wee, Lionel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors’ Bios

Preface and Acknowledgements

Christopher Stroud: Introduction

Language Rights and Linguistic Citizenship

1. Christopher Stroud: Linguistic Citizenship

2. Lionel Wee: Essentialism and Language Rights

3. Stephen May: Commentary. Unanswered Questions: Addressing the Inequalities of Majoritarian Language Policies

Educating for Linguistic Citizenship

4. Blasius A. Chiatoh: Affirming Linguistic Rights, Fostering Linguistic Citizenship: A Cameroonian Perspective

5. Feliciano Chimbutane: Education and Citizenship in Mozambique: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives

6. Estêvão Cabral and Marilyn Martin-Jones: Paths to Multilingualism? Reflections on Developments in Language-In-Education Policy and Practice in East Timor

7. Suwilai Premsrirat and Paul Bruthiaux: Language Rights and “Thainess”: Community-Based Bilingual Education Is the Key

8. Kathleen Heugh: Commentary. Linguistic Citizenship: Who Decides Whose Languages, Ideologies And Vocabulary Matter?

Linguistic Citizenship in Resistance and Participation

9. Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim: Citizenship Theory and Fieldwork Practice in Sri Lanka Malay Communities

10. Tommaso M. Milani and Rickard Jonsson: Linguistic Citizenship in Sweden: Resistance in A Context of Linguistic Human Rights

11. Gregory Kamwendo: Linguistic Citizenship in Post-Banda Malawi: A Focus On the Public Radio and Primary Education

12. Caroline Kerfoot: Making and Shaping Participatory Spaces: Resemiotization and Citizenship Agency in South Africa

13. Ana Deumert: Commentary. On Participation and Resistance

Über Autor(innen)

Wee, Lionel
Lionel Wee is a linguist in the Department of English Language & Literature, National University of Singapore. He is interested in language policy (especially in Southeast Asia), the grammar of Singapore English, metaphorical discourse, and general issues in sociolinguistics and pragmatics. He sits on the editorial boards of Applied Linguistics, English World-Wide and Multilingual Margins. His recent publications include The Singlish Controversy: Language, Identity and Culture in a Globalizing World (2018) and Language, Space, and Cultural Play: Theorizing Affect in the Semiotic Landscape (2019, co-authored with Robbie Goh), both with Cambridge University Press.

Lim, Lisa
Lisa Lim is Associate Professor and Head of the School of English, The University of Hong Kong.

Stroud, Christopher
Christopher Stroud is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, and Professor of Transnational Bilingualism at Stockholm University. His current research focuses on practices and ideologies of multilingualism in Southern Africa, specifically Linguistic Citizenship, as a way of rethinking the role of language in brokering diversity in a decolonial framework. He has published in English, Swedish and Portuguese in journals such as Language Policy, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistic Studies, Semiotics, International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, MAN, and Multilingual Margins (the latter of which he is co-founder). He has edited and authored a number of volumes, most recently: The Multilingual Citizen: Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change (co-edited with Lisa Lim and Lionel Wee (2018), Multilingual Matters; The Sociolinguistics of the South (co-edited with Kathleen Heugh, Peter da Costa and Kerry Taylor Leech (2021), Routledge: Critical Studies in Multilingualism; and Language and Decoloniality in Higher Education: Reclaiming Voices from the South (co-edited with Zannie Bock) (2021), Bloomsbury Academic. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Science in South Africa (ASSAf), a Member of the UNESCO Chair in Multilingualism and Language Planning; Scientific Board Member: The Centre for Multilingualism across the Lifespan (MultiLing), Oslo University; He co-edits a series for Bloomsbury Press together with Kathleen Heugh and Piet van Avermaet entitled ‘Multilingualisms and Diversities in Education’.

Lisa Lim is Associate Professor and Head of the School of English, The University of Hong Kong.

Christopher Stroud is Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research and Senior Professor of Linguistics, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Professor of Transnational Multilingualism, Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Lionel Wee is Provost Chair Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.