Researching Multilingualism - Critical and Ethnographic Perspectives

Researching Multilingualism expertly engages with a new sociolinguistics of multilingualism, taking account of this new communicative order and the particular cultural and social conditions of our times. Seventeen chapters are divided into four sections covering: researching discourses, policies and practices; contemporary mobilities; Researching multilingual communication on-line; Multilingualism in research practice. This state-of-the-art overview of research methodologies in multilingual settings will be of interest for all students and researchers working in the area of multilingualism within Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Education and Communication Studies.

List of contents

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Marilyn Martin-Jones and Deirdre Martin
Researching trajectories, multilingual repertoires and identities
Chapter 2: Narrative analysis in migrant and transnational contexts
Mike Baynham and Anna De Fina
Chapter 3: Biographical approaches to research in multilingual settings: Exploring linguistic repertoires.
Brigitta Busch
Chapter 4: The risks and gains of a single case study
Kamran Khan
Chapter 5: Researching student mobility in multilingual Switzerland: Reflections on multi-sited ethnography
Martina Zimmermann
Researching discourses, policies and practices on different scales
Chapter 6: Nexus analysis as scalar ethnography for educational linguistics
Francis Hult
Chapter 7: Critical ethnography of language policy: A semi-confessional tale
David Cassels Johnson
Chapter 8: Investigating visual practices in educational settings: schoolscapes, language
ideologies and organizational cultures
Petteri Laihonen and Tamás Péter Szabó


Researching multilingual communication and multisemioticity online
Chapter 9: Methodologies for researching multilingual online texts and practices
David Barton and Carmen Lee
Chapter 10: Investigating multilingualism and multi-semioticity as communicative resources in social media
Sirpa Leppänen & Samu Kytölä
Chapter 11: Virtual ethnographic approaches to researching multilingualism online.
Helen Kelly-Holmes and Aoife Lenihan
Multilingualism in research practice: voices, identities and researcher reflexivity
Chapter 12: Reflexive ethnographic research practice in multilingual contexts
Marilyn Martin-Jones, Jane Andrews and Deirdre Martin
Chapter 13: Reflexivity in team ethnography: Using researcher vignettes
Angela Creese, Jaspreet Kaur Takhi and Adrian Blackledge
Chapter 14: Researching children's literacy practices and identities in faith settings: multimodal text-making and talk about text as resources for knowledge-building
Vally Lytra, Eve Gregory and Arani Ilankuberan
Chapter 15: Multilingual dynamics in the research process: transcribing and interpreting interactional data
Sabina Vakser
Ethnographic monitoring and critical collaborative analysis for social change
Chapter 16: Countering unequal multilingualism through ethnographic monitoring
Haley De Korne and Nancy H. Hornberger
Chapter 17: Ethnographic monitoring and the study of complexity
Jef Van der Aa & Jan Blommaert

About the author

Deirdre Martin arbeitete einige Jahre als freie Journalistin für so unterschiedliche Zeitschriften wie "Seventeen", "Bride's", "Modern Maturity", "Inside Sports" und die "New York Times". Obwohl erfolgreich mit Finanzratgebern entschied sich Deirdre Martin eines Tages, ihrem eigentlichen Traum zu folgen: Sie fing an Romane zu schreiben - und das mit außergewöhnlichem Erfolg: Bereits preisgekrönt wartet inzwischen ein ständig wachsender Fankreis sehnsüchtig auf jedes neues Buch. Deirdre Martin lebt mit ihrem Ehemann in Ithaca, New York.

Summary

Researching Multilingualism expertly engages with a new sociolinguistics of multilingualism, taking account of this new communicative order and the particular cultural and social conditions of our times. Seventeen chapters are divided into four sections covering: researching discourses, policies and practices; contemporary mobilities; Researching multilingual communication on-line; Multilingualism in research practice. This state-of-the-art overview of research methodologies in multilingual settings will be of interest for all students and researchers working in the area of multilingualism within Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Education and Communication Studies.

Report

"For researchers and graduate students interested in pursuing studies related to multilingualism, this is a highly informative work that provides theoretical and methodological forays into many aspects of critical and ethnographic sociolinguistic research. It indeed takes up Blommaert's call (2010) for innovative conceptual and methodological approaches that can capture the highly complex, mobile and technologised communications in the 21^st century."
- Ruth Harnam, The University of Georgia, John Benjamins Publishing Company

Product details

• Authors: Martin Jones, Marilyn (Mosaic Centre for Research Martin-Jones, Marilyn (Mosaic Group for Research o Martin-Jones, Marilyn Martin Martin-Jones
• Assisted by: Deirdre Martin (Editor), Marilyn Martin-Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2016
• EAN: 9780415748421
• ISBN: 978-0-415-74842-1
• No. of pages: 284
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics