Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research - Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches

This book discusses salient moments of multilingual encounters and focuses on the interplay between language use by individuals and societies, and language-related inequalities or opportunities for speakers. The chapters demonstrate how biographical and speaker-centred approaches can contribute to an understanding of linguistic diversity.

About the author

Judith Purkarthofer is a Junior Professor in the German Studies Depart­ment at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has completed postdoctoral work at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan of the University of Oslo, Norway, and at Humboldt-University Berlin, Ger­many. She carries out ethnographic and biographic research in fami­lies, schools and kindergartens.
Mi-Cha Flubacher is a Postdoc-University Assistant in the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. She is the author of Language Investment and Employability: The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service (with Alexandre Duchêne and Renata Coray, 2018, Springer) and the editor of Language, Education and Neoliberalism: Critical Studies in Sociolinguistics (with Alfonso Del Percio, 2017, Multilingual Matters).   

Summary

This book discusses salient moments of multilingual encounters and focuses on the interplay between language use by individuals and societies, and language-related inequalities or opportunities for speakers. The chapters demonstrate how biographical and speaker-centred approaches can contribute to an understanding of linguistic diversity.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mi-Cha Flubacher (Editor), Judith Purkarthofer (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781800415720
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-572-0
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Researching Multilingually
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Miscellaneous; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, REFERENCE / Research, Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology