The Multilingual Citizen
Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change
In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to support. The chapters discuss issues of decoloniality and multilingualism in the global South, and together retheorize how to accommodate diversity in complexly multilingual/ multicultural societies. Offering a framework anchored in transformative n…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Stroud, Christopher (Hrsg.) / Wee, Lionel (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78309-967-2
- EAN: 9781783099672
- Produktnummer: 26316018
- Verlag: Channel View Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'508 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Lisa Lim is Associate Professor and Head of the School of English, The University of Hong Kong.Christopher Stroud is Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research and Senior Professor of Linguistics, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Professor of Transnational Multilingualism, Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, Sweden.Lionel Wee is Provost Chair Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.
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