Multilingualism - A Critical Perspective

Zusatztext ... remarkable both in breadth and depth... Blackledge and Creese's work is both impressive and inspiring in the scope and depth of the study presented and the clarity of the theoretical frame. Informationen zum Autor Adrian Blackledge is Professor of Bilingualism at the School of Education! University of Birmingham! UK. Angela Creese is Professor of Educational Linguistics at the School of Education! University of Birmingham! UK. Klappentext Examines the role of nationalism, heritage, culture, identity negotiation, ideology and power in multilingualism. Examines the role of nationalism, heritage, culture, identity negotiation, ideology and power in multilingualism. Zusammenfassung Examines the role of nationalism, heritage, culture, identity negotiation, ideology and power in multilingualism. This title offers responses from the authors' investigations of the language practices of multilingual young people and their teaching experiences in complementary schools in four cities in England. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Opening up multilingual spaces  2. Multilingualism, ideology and practice 3. Ethnography of multilingualism  4. A multilingual research team 5. Multilingualism in local and global spaces 6. Inventing and disinventing the national 7. Contesting ‘language' as ‘heritage' 8. Multilingual literacies across space and time  9. Official and carnival lives in the classroom 10. Flexible bilingualism in practice 11: Multilingualism: Future trajectories Index

Product details

• Authors: a Blackledge, Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese
• Assisted by: Tommaso M. Milani (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.12.2009
• EAN: 9780826492098
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9209-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics; Advances in Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism