Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-85359-646-9
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 349 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 466 g

The volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable. The chapters address various ways in which individuals may be positioned or position themselves in a variety of contexts. In asking questions about social justice, about who has access to symbolic and material resources, about who is ‘in' and who is ‘out', the authors take account not only of localised linguistic behaviours, attitudes and beliefs; they also locate them in wider social contexts which include class, race, ethnicity, generation, gender and sexuality.  The volume makes a significant contribution to the development of theory in understanding identity negotiation and social justice in multilingual contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pavlenko, Aneta

Blackledge, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Contributors

Aneta Pavlenko and Adrian Blackledge: Introduction: New Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts

1 Aneta Pavlenko: ‘The Making of an American’: Negotiation of Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2 Adrian Blackledge: Constructions of Identity in Political Discourse in Multilingual Britain

3 Meredith Doran: Negotiating Between Bourge and Racaille: Verlan as Youth Identity Practice in Suburban Paris

4 Melissa James and Bencie Woll: Black Deaf or Deaf Black? Being Black and Deaf in Britain

5 Jean Mills: Mothers and Mother Tongue: Perspectives on Self-construction by Mothers of Pakistani Heritage

6 Frances Giampapa: The Politics of Identity, Representation, and the Discourses of Self-identification: Negotiating the Periphery and the Center

7 Celeste Kinginger: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Foreign Language Learning and Identity Reconstruction

8 Benedicta Egbo: Intersections of Literacy and Construction of Social Identities

9 Suresh Canagarajah: Multilingual Writers and the Struggle for Voice in Academic Discourse

10 Jennifer Miller: Identity and Language Use: The Politics of Speaking ESL in Schools

11 Yasuko Kanno: Sending Mixed Messages: Language Minority Education at a Japanese Public Elementary School

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Blackledge, Adrian
Adrian Blackledge is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Stirling, UK. He has published widely on both multilingualism and sociolinguistics. Together with Angela Creese he is the author of Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography (Multilingual Matters, 2019), Interpretations – An Ethnographic Drama (Multilingual Matters, 2021), Volleyball – An Ethnographic Drama (Multilingual Matters, 2021) and Ode to the City – An Ethnographic Drama (Multilingual Matters, 2022). He was Birmingham Poet Laureate from 2014-2016.

Pavlenko, Aneta
Aneta Pavlenko is Research Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Oslo. Her research examines the relationship between multilingualism, cognition, and emotions. She has testified in court as an expert in forensic linguistics, lectured widely in North America, Europe and Asia, and authored more than a hundred articles and ten books, the most recent of which is The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and thought (Cambridge University Press, 2014). She is former President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and winner of the 2006 BAAL Book of the Year award and the 2009 TESOL Award for Distinguished Research.

Aneta Pavlenko is Associate Professor of TESOL in the College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, US. Her research examines the relationship between language and cognition, emotions, and identity in bi- and multilingual individuals. She is a co-editor of two other volumes.

Adrian Blackledge is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on language ideologies, relations of power, and the role of public discourse in diverse societies.