Critical Perspectives on Linguistic Fixity and Fluidity - Languagised Lives

List of contents

Chapter 1: Fixity and Fluidity in Sociolinguistic Theory and Practice
Jürgen Jaspers and Lian Malai Madsen

Part I: Negotiating Fixity

Chapter 2: Recognizing Languages, Practising Languaging
Janus Spindler Møller

Chapter 3: Languagised Repertoires: How Fictional Languages have Real Effects
Katharina Ruuska

Chapter 4: Lingoing and Everyday Metrolingual Metalanguage
Alastair Pennycook and Emi Otsuji

Part II: Pursuing Real Languages

Chapter 5: Carving out breathing spaces for Galician. New speakers’ investment in monolingual practices
Bernadette O’Rourke

Chapter 6: Transformative Multilingualism? Class, Race and Linguistic Repertoires in Hong Kong
Kara Fleming

Chapter 7: The Symbolic Organization of Languages in a High Prestige School
Thomas Rørbeck Nørreby and Lian Malai Madsen

Part III: The Meaning Potential of Fluid Language

Chapter 8: Inarticulate Voices: Translanguaging in an Ecology of Conflict
Panayiota Charalambous, Constadina Charalambous, and Michalinos Zembylas

Chapter 9: Speaker Perspectives, Linguistic Hybridity, and Language Learning
Ursula Ritzau and Lian Malai Madsen

Part IV: Dilemmas and Dialectics

Chapter 10: The Deliberative Teacher: Wavering between Linguistic Uniformity and Diversity
Jürgen Jaspers

Chapter 11: Register Processes in Contemporary South African Schools:

Dialectics of Fixity and Fluidity
James Collins and Lara-Stephanie Krause

Chapter 12: Discussion: The Elephant in Every Room.
Rob Moore

About the author

Jürgen Jaspers is Associate Professor of Dutch Linguistics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.

Lian Malai Madsen is Associate Professor of the Psychology of Language at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Summary

This volume offers a critical perspective on a range of increasingly popular terms in sociolinguistics and highlights empirical accounts alternative to prevailing perspectives in the field embodied by these terms.

Product details

• Authors: Jurgen Malai Madsen Jaspers
• Assisted by: Jürgen Jaspers (Editor), Lian Malai Madsen (Editor), Lian Malai Madsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367732196
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73219-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Language teaching and learning, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Bilingualism and multilingualism