Multilingual Identities: New Global Perspectives

Inke du Bois (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 3631629354 / ISBN 13: 9783631629352

Published by Peter Lang AG, 2013

About this Item

Focuses on lived multilingualism around the globe. This title accepts the idea that identities or sub-identities are in a sense pre-given and can be formulated through membership categories. It includes identities that are viewed as being enacted and performed, thus constituting social realities. Editor(s): Bois, Inke du; Baumgarten, Nicole. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDC; DSB; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346. . 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Multilingual Identities: New Global Perspectives
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631629354
• ISBN 13: 9783631629352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The contributions in this volume shed light on lived multilingualism around the globe. A small, but still representative selection of the multitude of migrant experiences, all studies share the intertwining of geographical mobility and non-mainstream linguistic practices which serves as a resource of agency and promotes alternative multiple identities of the immigrant speakers. This volume is based on the two core tenets of sociolinguistic identity research. First, it accepts the idea that identities or sub-identities are in a sense pre-given and can be formulated through membership categories. Second, identities are viewed as being enacted and performed, thus constituting social realities. In the social construction of identity, national and linguistic boundaries dissolve. The originating countries of the participants (and/or their ancestors) in the studies of this volume include Argentina, Ethiopia, Yugoslavia, Russia, Morocco, the Phillipines, Korea, Kazakhstan, Suriname and India. The countries of immigration include Germany, the USA, Israel, France and the Netherlands.

About the Author

Inke Du Bois studied English and Spanish Linguistics at the universities of Kiel (Germany) and Barcelona (Spain). She received her MA in English Linguistics from San Francisco State University (USA) and her doctorate in Applied Linguistics from Hamburg University (Germany). She currently works as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Bremen. Her research interests include multilingualism, youth migrant ethnolect and linguistic profiling in urban settings.
Nicole Baumgarten studied English Philology, Modern and Medieval History, and Law at the universities of Kiel and Aberdeen (UK) and Sociology at the University of Hamburg. She received her MA degree in English Philology from the University of Kiel and her Dr. phil. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hamburg. She currently holds a position as an Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg. Her research interests lie in the areas of non-native English and English as a Lingua Franca, identity construction in L2 discourse and language contact.