Multilingual Repertoires in Mobility: Navigating between Language, Culture and Identity

The contributors argue that multilingual repertoires are shaped by various forms of mobility - physical, symbolic, and digital. Across diverse contexts, mobility generates new linguistic resources, reshapes identities, and prompts individuals to negotiate belonging and power. They show that multilingualism is flexible, emotionally charged, and deeply tied to social hierarchies, conflict, and shifting ideologies. While mobility can foster hybridity and creativity, it can also reinforce exclusion and nationalism. Overall, the volume highlights multilingualism as dynamic, contested, and central to understanding contemporary social life.

Hadrian Aleksander Lankiewicz, professor at the University of Gdańsk, works at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, where he serves as its director, as well as at the Department of Literature and Language Research at the Koszalin University of Technology. He is a historian, English philologist, and Italian philologist by training. His research interests encompass both linguistics (linguistic identity, multilingualism, language policy) and literary studies, and are most often inspired by the application of ecological metaphors to the study of language and cultural products.

Dr Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, works at the School of Languages and Literature. Her research interests include professional and intercultural communication, business and advertising discourse, specialized language teaching as well as multilingualism and language policy. She has been part in many international projects.