Dr. Quentin Williams (editor) - Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship

Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship

MULTILINGUAL MATTERS

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MULTILINGUAL MATTERS: 173

Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship

Edited by

Quentin Williams, Ana Deumert and Tommaso M. Milani

MULTILINGUAL MATTERS

Bristol Jackson

DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/WILLIA5317

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Names: Williams, Quentin, editor. | Deumert, Ana, editor. | Milani, Tommaso M., editor.

Title: Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship/Edited by Quentin Williams, Ana Deumert and Tommaso M. Milani.

Description: Bristol; Jackson: Multilingual Matters, [2022] | Series: Multilingual Matters: 173 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: 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 Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2022003120 (print) | LCCN 2022003121 (ebook) | ISBN 9781800415300 (paperback) | ISBN 9781800415317 (hardback) | ISBN 9781800415324 (pdf) | ISBN 9781800415331 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: MultilingualismSocial aspects. | Cultural pluralism. | Language policy. | LCGFT: Essays.

Classification: LCC P115.45 .S87 2022 (print) | LCC P115.45 (ebook) | DDC 306.44/6dc23/eng/20220218 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022003120

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For Christopher Stroud

Teacher. Supervisor. Mentor. Colleague. Friend.

Thank you for all your guidance, wisdom and support.

Contents

Kenneth Hyltenstam and Caroline Kerfoot

Quentin Williams, Ana Deumert and Tommaso M. Milani

Lionel Wee

Kathleen Heugh

Ben Rampton, Melanie Cooke and Sam Holmes

Lauren van Niekerk, Keshia R. Jansen and Zannie Bock

Marcelyn Oostendorp

Linus Sal and David Karlander

Amy Hiss and Amiena Peck

Quentin Williams

Emanuel Bylund

Don Kulick

Christopher Stroud

Zannie Bock is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department and current Deputy Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her recent publications are in the fields of narrative and discourse analysis, with a focus on racializing discourses among university students, and decolonial pedagogies. She has a long-standing interest in adult literacy, curriculum and materials development, and is the project co-ordinator and co-editor of the first southern African textbook in Linguistics, Language, Society and Communication: An Introduction (Van Schaik Publishers). She co-edited Language and Decoloniality in Higher Education: Reclaiming Voices from the South (Bloomsbury, 2021, with Christopher Stroud). She also recently co-ordinated (with a student editorial team) a special issue of the journal, Multilingual Margins, titled The Cats Cradle of Multilingualism .

Emanuel Bylund (Stellenbosch University and Stockholm University) studies the relationship between language and cognition, and the role of age in language acquisition and loss. His work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics , Bilingualism : Language and Cognition , Cognition and Psychological Science .

Melanie Cooke is currently a Lecturer in ESOL Education at Kings College, London. Her books include Brokering Britain, Educating Citizens: Exploring ESOL and Citizenship (2019, with Rob Peutrell), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity (Routledge, 2019, section editor with James Simpson) and ESOL: A Critical Guide (2008, with James Simpson). She has published in TESOL Quarterly , Language and Education , Linguistics and Education , Language Assessment Quarterly , Journal of Language, Identity and Education and Gender and Language . She was a co-organizer of the ESRC seminar series Queering ESOL (with John Gray and Mike Baynham) and has collaborated with Dermot Bryers and Becky Winstanley on several participatory ESOL projects, the most recent being the Leverhulme funded Our Languages .

Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. Her research is located in the broad field of African sociolinguistics and has a strong transdisciplinary focus. She has worked on the history of Afrikaans ( The Dynamics of Cape Dutch , 2004); co-authored Introducing Sociolinguistics (2009, with Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann and William Leap); and the Dictionary of Sociolinguistics (2004, with Joan Swann, Rajend Mesthrie and Theresa Lillis). She has also published extensively on mobile communication from a southern perspective ( Sociolinguistics and Mobile Communication , 2014). Her current work focuses on decoloniality and southern theory in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. She also explores the use of language in insurgent political movements, focusing, in particular, on the anti-colonial struggle. She was Editor of IMPACT Studies in Language and Society until 2018); 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 member of the scientific committee of GLOCAL (SOAS) and serves on several editorial boards. She received the Neville Alexander Award for the Promotion of Multilingualism in 2014 and the Humboldt Research Award in 2016.