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The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies

Author : Julia Gspandl
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1800412053
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies by : Julia Gspandl

Download or read book The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies written by Julia Gspandl and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to capture evidence of marginalized voices in various contexts globally and show how speakers seek to reclaim their voices and challenge power relations. The chapters reveal how speakers actively confront inequities in society such as the unequal distribution of resources. Through bottom-up initiatives and conscious involvement in language use, documentation and the development of language domains, speakers can address issues of language-based marginalization, (re)establish linguistic human rights and reclaim their linguistic and cultural identity. Chapters in the volume explore commitments to democratic participation, to voice, to the heterogeneity of linguistic resources and to the political value of sociolinguistic understanding. Drawing upon the framework of linguistic citizenship, they link questions of language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, rights and equity, as well as to issues of power and access within a political and democratic framework.

The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism

Author : Carolyn McKinney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000931978
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism written by Carolyn McKinney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of the field of multilingualism for a global readership and an overview of the research which situates multilingualism in its social, cultural and political context. This fully revised edition not only updates several of the original chapters but introduces many new ones that enrich contemporary debates in the burgeoning field of multilingualism. With a decolonial perspective and including leading new and established contributors from different regions of the globe, the handbook offers a critical overview of the interdisciplinary field of multilingualism, providing a range of central themes, key debates and research sites for a global readership. Chapters address the profound epistemological and ontological challenges and shifts produced since the first edition in 2012. The handbook includes an introduction, five parts with 28 chapters and an afterword. The chapters are structured around sub-themes, such as Coloniality and Multilingualism, Concepts and Theories in Multilingualism, and Multilingualism and Education. This ground-breaking text is a crucial resource for researchers, scholars and postgraduate students interested in multilingualism from areas such as sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, anthropology and education.

Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts

Author : Charamba, Erasmos
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668450356
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts by : Charamba, Erasmos

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts written by Charamba, Erasmos and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several factors have resulted in increased intra- and inter-state migration. This has led to an increase in the enrollment of students with diverse linguistics backgrounds, placing more academic demands on educators. Linguistic diversity presents both opportunities and challenges for educators across the educational spectrum. Language ideologies profoundly shape and constrain the use of language as a resource for learning in multilingual or linguistically diverse classrooms. While English has become the world language, most communities remain, and are becoming more and more multicultural, multilingual, and diverse. The Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts moves beyond the constraints of current language ideologies and enables the use of a wide range of resources from local semiotic repertoires. It examines the phenomenon of language use, language teaching, multiculturalism, and multilingualism in different learning areas, giving practitioners a voice to spotlight their efforts in order to keep their teaching afloat in culturally and linguistically diverse situations. Covering topics such as Indigenous languages, multilingual deaf communities, and intercultural competence, this major reference work is an essential resource for educators of both K-12 and higher education, pre-service teachers, educational psychologists, linguists, education administrators and policymakers, government officials, researchers, and academicians.

Studies on Indigenous Signed and Spoken Languages in Africa

Author : Emmanuel Asonye
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1036402258
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies on Indigenous Signed and Spoken Languages in Africa by : Emmanuel Asonye

Download or read book Studies on Indigenous Signed and Spoken Languages in Africa written by Emmanuel Asonye and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an important exploration of Africa’s rich linguistic diversity. The chapters delve into the complexities of linguistic research, preservation, and cultural understanding, with a regional focus covering indigenous African languages. It honours often-overlooked sign languages, making it a trailblazing work in its combination of signed and spoken languages within the African environment. This book is a must-have for anybody interested in African languages, providing new perspectives on language preservation, cultural identity, and the lasting spirit of linguistic diversity. The individual chapters present an invitation to discover, appreciate, and preserve Africa’s indigenous languages. This volume, intended for linguists, policy makers, and graduate and undergraduate students, presents a practical approach to deciphering the complexity of indigenous African languages, both signed and spoken.

Redoing Linguistic Worlds

Author : Kris Aric Knisely
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1800415117
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Redoing Linguistic Worlds written by Kris Aric Knisely and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and gender are interconnected, social and relational acts through which we constantly remake our worlds. But what happens when our ways of doing gender cannot be neatly categorized into traditional binary systems, including not only the social groupings of roles, practices and identities, but also the forms and structures through which we do language? This book brings together a broad range of scholars to explore the undoing and redoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, in and through their linguistic and social reimaginings. Each of the contributions to this book reflects on this ongoing change and its place in our everyday lives, including the ways that its outcomes are both contested and fluid. This volume represents an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that stands to inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings and one that calls on all of us to stand in the tensions of our own humanity and look through it for how our languaging might ‘do’ imaginary worlds that are more equitable, more connected, and more just for us all.

In/Visibility of Flight

Author : Monika Mokre
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839469031
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book In/Visibility of Flight written by Monika Mokre and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In/Visibility is unequally distributed in society and closely related to the distribution of power and privilege. Using images and narratives to mobilize is part of political strategies. The relationship of in/visibility and migration is the guiding question for this edited volume. The chapters discuss multidisciplinary perspectives and factors that contribute to the visibility of forced migration beyond a policy-centered discourse. They focus on the voices and agency of refugees in different countries and contexts. By including research, practical experiences and artistic methods, the volume will be of interest to readers from different academic disciplines and the arts as well as to practitioners.

Critical Conversation Analysis

Author : Hansun Zhang Waring
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1800415419
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Critical Conversation Analysis written by Hansun Zhang Waring and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first collection of conversation analytic studies addressed exclusively to issues of inequality and injustice. It offers a broad depiction of how inequality and injustice are reproduced, resisted and transformed in our daily life; together the chapters produce a forensic analysis of how participants enact discriminatory ideologies, negotiate systemic power imbalances, and pursue social change in and through the nuances of their interactions. The authors draw on audio and video recordings of interaction in a wide range of social settings, ranging from classrooms to family dinners, and political town halls to television sitcoms. The book demonstrates the power of conversation analysis to tackle issues of social (in)justice and (in)equality and launches critical conversation analysis as a distinct empirical program dedicated to systematically investigating and promoting inclusion and equity in the minute details of everyday interaction.

Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World

Author : Adrian Blackledge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227058
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World by : Adrian Blackledge

Download or read book Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World written by Adrian Blackledge and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World the discourse of politicians and policy-makers in Britain links languages other than English, and therefore speakers of these languages, with civil disorder and threats to democracy, citizenship and nationhood. These powerful arguments travel along 'chains of discourse' until they gain the legitimacy of the state, and are inscribed in law. The particular focus of this volume is on discourse linking 'race riots' in England in 2001 with the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, which extended legislation to test the English language proficiency of British citizenship applicants. Adrian Blackledge develops a theoretical and methodological framework which draws on critical discourse analysis to reveal the linguistic character of social and cultural processes and structures; on Bakhtin's notion of the dialogic nature of discourse to demonstrate how voices progressively gain authority; and on Bourdieu's model of symbolic domination to illuminate the way in which linguistic-minority speakers may be complicit in the misrecognition, or valorisation, of the dominant language.

The Power of Language

Author : Viorica Marian
Publisher : Penguin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780241626023
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Language written by Viorica Marian and published by Penguin Press. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should we learn more than one language? Can it change the way we think? Does it have the power to transform how we see the world? You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. Some people speak Spanish, some Mandarin. Some speak poetry, some are fluent in maths. Humans are built for multilingualism. Drawing on cutting-edge research and theory, delivered with wit and lucid insight, psycholinguist Viorica Marian explores the ways in which the mind uses multiple languages and how, in doing so, we can open the doors to unique forms of creativity, brain health and cognitive control. Every new language we speak - whether it is coding or musical notes, Hindi or Arabic - shapes how we extract and interpret information. It alters what we remember, how we perceive ourselves and those around us, how we feel, the insights we have, the decisions we make and the actions we take. The Power of Language lays bare how we use different linguistic codes to think about the world - and change our place within it. Empowering and practical, this is the perfect guide for anyone interested in how language really works.

Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners

Author : Mariana Pacheco
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641135093
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners written by Mariana Pacheco and published by IAP. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts that are in some way transforming what we know about the extent to which emergent bilinguals (EBs) learn and achieve in educational settings. In the following chapters, scholars and researchers identify both (1) the current state of schooling for EBs, from their perspective, and (2) the particular ways that policies, pedagogies, and/or practices transform schooling as it currently exists for EBs in discernible ways based on their scholarship and research. Drawing on current and seminal research in fields including second language acquisition, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics, contributing authors draw on complementary theoretical, methodological, and philosophical frameworks that attend to the social, cultural, political, and ideological dimensions of being and becoming bi/multilingual and bi/multiliterate in schools and in the United States. In sum, we are deeply committed to asserting hope, possibility, and potential to discussions and discourses about bi/multilingual students. We value the urgency around improving the conditions, experiences, and circumstances in which they are learning languages and academic content. Our aim is to highlight perspectives, conceptualizations, orientations, and ideologies that disrupt and contest legacies of deficit thinking, linguistic purism, language standardization, and racism and the racialization of ethnolinguistic minorities.

A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond

Author : Zakeera Docrat
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1991201265
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond written by Zakeera Docrat and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond is an interdisciplinary publication located in the discipline of forensic linguistics/ language and law. This handbook includes varying comparative African and global case studies on the use of language(s) in courtroom discourse and higher education institutions: Kenya; Morocco; Nigeria; Australia; Belgium Canada and India. These African and global case studies form the backdrop for the critique of the monolingual English language of record policy for South African courts, the core of this handbook, discussed in relation to case law and the beleaguered legal interpretation profession. This handbook argues that linguistic transformation and decolonisation of South Africa’s legal and higher education systems needs to be undertaken where legal practitioners are linguistically equipped to litigate in a bilingual/ multilingual courtroom that enables access to justice for the majority of African language speaking litigants, enforcing their constitutional language rights.

Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society

Author : Kasper Juffermans
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783094222
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society by : Kasper Juffermans

Download or read book Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society written by Kasper Juffermans and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practice against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of the linguistic landscape of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a countable noun (a language, languages). He goes on to argue that sociolinguistics should not be defined as the study of ‘who speaks what language to whom, and when and to what end’ (as Fishman defined it), but as the study of who uses which linguistic features under particular circumstances in a particular place and time. The book is therefore in part an exercise to unpluralise language, which Juffermans argues is necessary for a more realistic understanding of what language is, what it does, and what people do with it. The book will be of interest to sociolinguistics researchers, especially those focusing on Africa and the global South.

Transforming a Learning Society

Author : Ari Antikainen
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039114498
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Transforming a Learning Society written by Ari Antikainen and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What underlies the Finnish success in international comparisons of education? The articles in this collection address this question through an examination of the educational institutions, education policy and life histories of learners in Finland's rapidly changing society.

Reconceptualizing English Education in a Multilingual Society

Author : Isabel Pefianco Martin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981107528X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconceptualizing English Education in a Multilingual Society by : Isabel Pefianco Martin

Download or read book Reconceptualizing English Education in a Multilingual Society written by Isabel Pefianco Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together chapters that describe, investigate, and analyze the place of English in education in multilingual Philippines. Unlike most studies on languages in education, which take a neutral, de-contextualized stance, this volume take a pluricentric view of the English language by positioning it in relation to its varieties, as well as to other languages in the country. Because of the changing realities of English in the Philippines, traditional assumptions about the language as monolithic and unchanging, as well as about how it should be taught and learned, need to be revisited and re-conceptualized.

Translanguaging as Transformation

Author : Emilee Moore
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788928067
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Translanguaging as Transformation written by Emilee Moore and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines translanguaging as a resource which can disrupt the privileging of particular voices, and a social practice which enables collaboration within and across groups of people. Addressing the themes of collaboration and transformation, the chapters critically examine how people work together to catalyse change in diverse global contexts, experiences and traditions. The authors suggest an epistemological and methodological turn to the study of translanguaging, which is particularly reflected in the collaborative, arts-based and action research/activist approaches followed in the chapters. The book will be of particular interest to scholars using ethnographic, critical and collaborative action and activist research approaches to the study of multilingualism in educational and creative arts contexts.

Remix Multilingualism

Author : Quentin Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472591143
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Remix Multilingualism written by Quentin Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage. This book is an ethnographic study of multilingual remixing achieved by highly multilingual participants in the local hip hop culture of Cape Town. In globalised societies today previously marginalized speakers are carving out new and innovating spaces to put on display their voices and identities through the creative use of multilingualism. This book contributes to the development of new conceptual insights and theoretical developments on multilingualism in the global South by applying the notions of stylization, performance, performativity, entextualisation and enregisterment. This takes place through interviews, performance analysis and interactional analysis, showing how young multilingual speakers stage different personae, styles, registers and language varieties.

Social Justice Through Multilingual Education

Author : Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847691897
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Justice Through Multilingual Education by : Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Download or read book Social Justice Through Multilingual Education written by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known, most Indigenous and minority children are not provided with multilingual education, which would enable them to succeed both in school and in society. In this important book, experts from around the world show how multilingual education can be provided, and what it can achieve.