Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research: Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1800415710 ISBN 13 : 9781800415713

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2022

Synopsis

This book discusses salient moments of multilingual encounters and brings together contributions focused on the interplay between language use by individuals and societies, and language-related inequalities or opportunities for speakers. The chapters demonstrate how biographical and speaker-centred approaches can contribute to an understanding of linguistic diversity, how researchers can empirically account for lived experiences of languages, and how such accounts are embedded in a larger discussion on social (in)equality. Together the chapters make a powerful case for the importance of speaker-centred methodologies in multilingual and multilingualism research. The book is a rich source of theoretical and methodological reflections and will thus be a valuable resource for both experienced researchers and students beginning to explore biographical research methods.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Judith Purkarthofer is a Junior Professor in the German Studies Depart­ment at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has completed postdoctoral work at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan of the University of Oslo, Norway, and at Humboldt-University Berlin, Ger­many. She carries out ethnographic and biographic research in fami­lies, schools and kindergartens.

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Mi-Cha Flubacher is a Postdoc-University Assistant in the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. She is the author of Language Investment and Employability: The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service (with Alexandre Duchêne and Renata Coray, 2018, Springer) and the editor of Language, Education and Neoliberalism: Critical Studies in Sociolinguistics (with Alfonso Del Percio, 2017, Multilingual Matters).   

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1800415710
• ISBN 13: 9781800415713
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Purkarthofer Judith, Flubacher Mi-Cha
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible