Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control: Language Policy, Identity and Belonging (Language, Mobility and Institutions, 5) (Volume 5) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788924673 ISBN 13: 9781788924672

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2020

Synopsis

In the midst of an international crisis in migration policy – widely referred to as a ‘refugee crisis’ – this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and yet specific ways in which migration affects globalized societies, set against the background of the rise of nationalist and populist movements. The voices of migrants and refugees are rarely heard in this context: usually, they are debated about, summarized and reported but their agency is denied. Each contribution to this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants.

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About the Authors

Markus Rheindorf is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests include Critical Discourse Studies, Migration Studies, Media Discourse and Populism.

Ruth Wodak is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, UK and the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published widely, including The Politics of Fear: What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean (2015, Sage).

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788924673
• ISBN 13: 9781788924672
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Rheindorf Markus, Wodak Prof. Ruth