Multilingual Identities: New Global Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Inke Du Bois (editor), Nicole Baumgarten (editor)

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 180
Edition: New
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The contributions in this volume shed light on lived multilingualism around the globe. A small, but still representative selection of the multitude of migrant experiences, all studies share the intertwining of geographical mobility and non-mainstream linguistic practices which serves as a resource of agency and promotes alternative multiple identities of the immigrant speakers. This volume is based on the two core tenets of sociolinguistic identity research. First, it accepts the idea that identities or sub-identities are in a sense pre-given and can be formulated through membership categories. Second, identities are viewed as being enacted and performed, thus constituting social realities. In the social construction of identity, national and linguistic boundaries dissolve. The originating countries of the participants (and/or their ancestors) in the studies of this volume include Argentina, Ethiopia, Yugoslavia, Russia, Morocco, the Phillipines, Korea, Kazakhstan, Suriname and India. The countries of immigration include Germany, the USA, Israel, France and the Netherlands.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Introduction: New questions in research on multilingual identities in migration contexts. Inke Du Bois and Nicole Baumgarten
Communicative practices among migrant youth in Germany: ‘Insulting address forms’ as a multi-functional activity. Susanne Günthner
Made in Berlin: Bilingualism and identity among immigrant and German-background children. Janet M. Fuller
Asian American girls who speak African American English: A subcultural language identity. A. Lane Igoudin
Deutsche or rusaki? Transformations of the cultural selfconceptions after (r)emigration. Katharina Meng and Ekaterina Protassova
Loving Bollywood and being Dutch: Language choice and identity issues among Surinamese-Hindustani women in Amsterdam. Dipika Mukherjee
The role of public opinion in argumentation: Immigrants in the French radio broadcast Là-bas si j’y suis. Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre
‘And then I had to hold my first Referat on Beethoven as a politischer Mensch’: Multilingual identities and L1 languageloss of US Americans in Germany. Inke Du Bois
Indigenous and immigrant identities in multilingual Israel: Insights from focus groups and discourse analysis. Dafna Yitzhaki, Carmit Altman, Zhanna Feldman-Burstein, LeorCohen and Joel Walters
Subject index
Author index

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