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Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship Quentin Williams

Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship By Quentin Williams

Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship by Quentin Williams


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This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of linguistic citizenship. Each chapter illuminates how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.

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Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship Summary

Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship by Quentin Williams

This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies. The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and radical social transformations in democracies in the north and south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics. Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.

Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship Reviews

In a world divided by nations, institutional racism and sexism, and other forms of colonial injustice, Stroud's concept of Linguistic Citizenship allows us to rethink what it means to belong to and through language, to have agency and voice. This pathbreaking book is a must-read for anyone interested in linguistic justice, multilingualism and language and nationalism. * Jaspal Naveel Singh, The Open University, UK *

The fascinating contributions in this collection align with a critical ongoing shift that challenges mythical framings of mainstream hegemonies related to 'language', including (re)locating the significance of 'language' in 'being and becoming'. Importantly, the contributions shift the focus from language to languaging. (Re)imagining centers and peripheries, they illustrate 'dignity in diversity', offering a much-needed opening for doing language 'otherwise'.

* Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Joenkoeping University, Sweden *
An engaged and critical collection by eminent and rising scholars from the Global South and North, this book presents diverse theoretical and applied perspectives on the notion of Linguistic Citizenship. It reminds us of the continuing political relevance of language and of our shared hope and responsibility to contribute to democracy, justice and peace in a world of struggle. * Britta Schneider, European University Viadrina, Germany *

About Quentin Williams

Quentin Williams is Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) and Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His most recent book is Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa (HSRC Press, 2019, with Adam Haupt, H. Samy Alim and Emile Jansen).

Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently co-editor of Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact (with Salikoko Mufwene) and co-editor of Edinburgh Sociolinguistics (with Paul Kerswill). She is a recipient of the Neville Alexander Award for Multilingualism and the Humboldt Research Award.

Tommaso M. Milani is Professor of Multilingualism at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Visiting Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is co-editor of the journal Language in Society and he edits the Bloomsbury book series Advances in Sociolinguistics.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Kenneth Hyltenstam & Caroline Kerfoot: Foreword: Linguistic Citizenship: Unlabeled Forerunners and Recent Trajectories

Chapter 1. Quentin Williams, Ana Deumert & Tommaso M. Milani: Introduction

Part 1: Linguistic Citizenship as Theory and Practice of Multilingualism

Chapter 2. Lionel Wee: The Myth of Orderly Multilingualism

Chapter 3. Kathleen Heugh: Linguistic Citizenship as a Decolonial Lens on Southern Multilingualisms and Epistemologies

Chapter 4. Ben Rampton, Melanie Cooke and Sam Holmes: Linguistic Citizenship and the Questions of Transformation and Marginality

Part 2: Multilingual Narratives and Linguistic Citizenship

Chapter 5. Lauren van Niekerk, Keshia R. Jansen and Zannie Bock: I Am My Own Coloured: Navigating Language and Race in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Chapter 6. Marcelyn Oostendorp: Linguistic Citizenship and Non-Citizens: Of Utopias and Dystopias

Part 3: Linguistic Citizenship for Linguistic Knowledge, Digital Activism and Popular Culture

Chapter 7. Linus Saloe and David Karlander: The Travels of Semilingualism: Itineraries of Ire, Impact and Infamy

Chapter 8. Amy Hiss and Amiena Peck: Turbulent Twitter and the Semiotics of Protest at an Ex-Model C School

Chapter 9. Quentin Williams: Remixing Linguistic Citizenship

Part 4: Postscripts: Taking Linguistic Citizenship towards New Directions

Chapter 10. Emanuel Bylund: WEIRD Psycholinguistics

Chapter 11. Don Kulick: The Sociolinguistics of Responsibility

Christopher Stroud: Afterword: Seeding(Ceding) Linguistically: New Roots for New Routes

Index

Additional information

CIN1800415303G
9781800415300
1800415303
Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship by Quentin Williams
Used - Good
Paperback
Multilingual Matters
2022-07-08
272
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