Full Description
New Approaches to Language and Identity in Contexts of Migration and Diaspora draws together expertise and contemporary research findings in respect of language and identity in migrant and diasporic contexts throughout the world.
Over thirteen chapters, contributors examine the intersection between migration, language, and identity through analyses of migration discourses, language practices, and legal policy, as well as the ideologies embedded and revealed within them. A wide range of subject areas and interdisciplinary approaches are represented, with fifteen authors drawn from the fields of education, intercultural communication, linguistics, geography, migration studies, psychology, and sociology.
This volume will primarily appeal to scholars and researchers in fields such as migration, intercultural communication, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, multilingualism, and heritage language learning.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1. Language and identity in Contexts of Migration and Diaspora - Introductory Remarks
2. "And suddenly the foreign, the Other, is no longer so foreign": Polish Café as a grassroots initiative of linguistic integration
3. "I think I speak European!": Tracing immigrant identities in Edinburgh, Scotland
4. Divergent language ideologies in a transatlantic minority: Gaelic in Scotland and Nova Scotia
5. Degrees of Belonging in Diasporic Contexts: Indexical scales of Vietnamese-ness in the UK
6. Formation and life course impact of language identity: A case study of Japanese returnees from China
7. Hybrid Language Identity of the Second-Generation Immigrants in Cyprus
8. Language Landscapes and Native Resilience: Land-Connectivity, Language, and Identity among Urban Native Americans
9. Language, accent and the experience of belonging for the second-generation Irish from England
10. Linguistic Identity of the second generation of Arabic speakers in Italy
11. Narratives of (un)belonging: Language management and identity negotiations in two immigrant families in New Zealand
12. The Performance of Agentic Identity by Refugees in Edinburgh: challenging the Victim Frame.
13. Epilogue and Future research directions in migration, language and identity
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