Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research

Description

Argues for the importance of speaker-centred research in linguistics, providing a counter movement to multilingualism research focused on corpus data

This book discusses salient moments of multilingual encounters and brings together contributions focused 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, how researchers can empirically account for lived experiences of languages, and how such accounts are embedded in a larger discussion on social (in)equality. Together the chapters make a powerful case for the importance of speaker-centred methodologies in multilingual and multilingualism research. The book is a rich source of theoretical and methodological reflections and will thus be a valuable resource for both experienced researchers and students beginning to explore biographical research methods.

Figures and Tables

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Introducing Speaking Subjects

Chapter 1. Mi-Cha Flubacher and Judith Purkarthofer: Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research: Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches

Chapter 2. Judith Purkarthofer: And the Subject Speaks to You: Biographical Narratives as Memories and Stories of the Narratable Self

Chapter 3. Tim McNamara: Discourse and the Agency of the Subject in Autobiographical Narratives

Chapter 4. Mi-Cha Flubacher: Ethnography as a Speaker-centred Approach? Methodological Reflections

Part 2: Empirical Insights

Language Portraits as a Starting Ground



Chapter 5. Christine Anthonissen: Profiles of Multilingualism: An Analysis of Language Biographies and Linguistic Repertoires of University Students

Chapter 6. Maartje De Meulder and Annelies Kusters: Experiencing Multimodal Languaging: The Use of Language Portraits with Deaf and Hearing Multilingual Signers

Chapter 7. Ruth Singer: Linguistic Biographies and Language Portraits as Tools for Developing Shared Understandings of Multilingualism with an Indigenous Australian Community

Linguistic Repertoires and Language Learning in Time and Space



Chapter 8. Xolisa Guzula: Children’s Use of Their Full Linguistic Repertoire to Establish a Social and Linguistic Third Space for Learning: A Case Study of the Stars of Today Literacy Club

Chapter 9. Simangele Mashazi and Marcelyn Oostendorp: Belonging: The Interplay of Linguistic Repertoires, Bodies and Space in an Educational Context 

Chapter 10. Julie Choi: Learning about Multilingual Language Learning Experiences through Language Trajectory Grids

Chapter 11. Andrea Sedlaczek: Using Media Diaries to Study Multilingual Media Repertoires: A Pilot Study with Language Learners in a Rural Community Education Setting

Addressing Trauma



Chapter 12. Julia Sonnleitner: A Past of Flesh and Blood: Chronotopic Agency and Embodiment in Biographic Narrative

Chapter 13. Mastura Raschidy: Freedom is Suffering for a Caged Bird: Biographical Approaches and Psychotraumatology

Chapter 14. Mascha Dabić: Speaking about the Unspeakable: Interpreter-mediated Psychotherapy for Survivors of War and Torture

Part 3: Unsettling and Extending Biographical Research and Speaker-centred Approaches  

Chapter 15. Ana Deumert, Zolani Kupe and Nkululeko Mabandla: Ilwiimi Zisulungekile: Reflections on Language, Meaning and Communication

Chapter 16. Jürgen Spitzmüller: Ideologies of Communication: The Social Link between Actors, Signs and Practices

Chapter 17. Anne-Christel Zeiter-Grau: Language Issues? On Collecting Language Biographies without Focusing on Language

Chapter 18. Brigitta Busch: A Few Remarks on Working with Auto-Socio-Bio-Ethnography

Index 

Sujets

• Disciplines
• Language Arts
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Linguistics
• Multilingualism
• Applied linguistics
• Professional
• Postgraduate education
• General officer
• Sociolinguistics
• General
• Research
• Postgraduate

Informations

• Publié par: Channel View Publications
• Date de parution: 22 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781800415744
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research
RESEARCHING MULTILINGUALLY
Series Editors : Prue Holmes , Durham University, UK , Richard Fay , University of Manchester, UK and Jane Andrews , University of the West of England, UK
Consulting Editor : Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, UK
The increasingly diverse character of many societies means that many researchers may now find themselves engaging with multilingual opportunities and complexities as they design, carry out and disseminate their research. This may be the case regardless of whether or not there is an explicit language and multilingual aspect to their research. This book series proposes to address the methodological, practical, ethical and other options and dilemmas that researchers face as they go about their research. How do they design their research methodology to account for multilingual possibilities and practices? How do they manage such linguistic complexities in the research domain? What are the implications for their research outcomes? Research methods training programmes only rarely address these questions and there is, as yet, only a limited literature available. This series proposes to establish a new track of theoretical, methodological and ethical researcher praxis that researchers can draw upon in research(er) contexts where multiple languages are at play or might be purposefully used. In particular, the series proposes to offer critical and interpretive perspectives on research practices and endeavours in inter- and multi-disciplinary contexts and especially where languages, and the people speaking and using them, are under pressure, pain and tension.
All books in this series are externally peer-reviewed.
Full details of all the books in this series and of all our other publications can be found on http://www.multilingual-matters.com , or by writing to Multilingual Matters, St Nicholas House, 31–34 High Street, Bristol, BS1 2AW, UK.
RESEARCHING MULTILINGUALLY: 7
Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research
Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches
Edited by
Judith Purkarthofer and Mi-Cha Flubacher
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
Bristol • Jackson
to Brigitta
DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/PURKAR5720
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Title: Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research: Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches / edited by Judith Purkarthofer and Mi-Cha Flubacher.
Description: Bristol; Jackson: Multilingual Matters, [2022] | Series: Researching Multilingually: 7 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | 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”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022006541 (print) | LCCN 2022006542 (ebook) | ISBN 9781800415720 (Hardcover) | ISBN 9781800415713 (Paperback) | ISBN 9781800415737 (PDF) | ISBN 9781800415744 (ePub)
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Contents
Figures and Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part 1 : Introducing Speaking Subjects
1 Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research: Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches
Mi-Cha Flubacher and Judith Purkarthofer
2 And the Subject Speaks to You: Biographical Narratives as Memories and Stories of the Narratable Self
Judith Purkarthofer
3 Discourse and the Agency of the Subject in Autobiographical Narratives
Tim McNamara
4 Ethnography as a Speaker-centred Approach? Methodological Reflections
Mi-Cha Flubacher
Part 2 : Empirical Insights
Language Portraits as a Starting Ground
5 Profiles of Multilingualism: An Analysis of Language Biographies and Linguistic Repertoires of University Students
Christine Anthonissen
6 Experiencing Multimodal Languaging: The Use of Language Portraits with Deaf and Hearing Multilingual Signers
Maartje De Meulder and Annelies Kusters
7 Linguistic Biographies and Language Portraits as Tools for Developing Shared Understandings of Multilingualism with an Indigenous Australian Community
Ruth Singer
Linguistic Repertoires and Language Learning in Time and Space
8 Children’s Use of Their Full Linguistic Repertoire to Establish a Social and Linguistic Third Space for Learning: A Case Study of the Stars of Today Literacy Club
Xolisa Guzula
9 Belonging: The Interplay of Linguistic Repertoires, Bodies and Space in an Educational Context
Simangele Mashazi and Marcelyn Oostendorp
10 Learning about Multilingual Language Learning Experiences through Language Trajectory Grids
Julie Choi
11 Using Media Diaries to Study Multilingual Media Repertoires: A Pilot Study with Language Learners in a Rural Community Education Setting
Andrea Sedlaczek
Addressing Trauma
12 A Past of Flesh and Blood: Chronotopic Agency and Embodiment in Biographic Narrative
Julia Sonnleitner
13 Freedom is Suffering for a Caged Bird: Biographical Approaches and Psychotraumatology
Mastura Raschidy
14 Speaking about the Unspeakable: Interpreter-mediated Psychotherapy for Survivors of War and Torture
Mascha Dabić
Part 3 : Unsettling and Extending Biographical Research and Speaker-centred Approaches
15 Ilwiimi Zisulungekile: Reflections on Language, Meaning and Communication
Ana Deumert, Zolani Kupe and Nkululeko Mabandla
16 Ideologies of Communication: The Social Link between Actors, Signs and Practices
Jürgen Spitzmüller
17 Language Issues? On Collecting Language Biographies without Focusing on Language
Anne-Christel Zeiter
18 A Few Remarks on Working with Auto-Socio-Bio-Ethnography
Brigitta Busch
Index
Figures and Tables
Figures
Figure 1.1 Language portraits: Empty silhouette , http://heteroglossia.net/Sprachportraet.123.0.html
Figure 2.1 Maria Lassnig: Herzselbstporträt im grünen Zimmer, 1968; Öl auf Leinwand, 127 × 92 cm; Sammlung Klewan, © Maria Lassnig Stiftung
Figure 5.1 Dilon’s Language Portrait
Figure 5.2 Nandipa’s Language Portrait
Figure 5.3 Languages reported as L1s in speaker repertoires in Johannesburg, SA census 2011
Figure 5.4 Bokang‘s language portrait
Figure 5.5 Fanisa’s language portrait
Figure 6.1 From Study 1: Marieke’s LP (cf. https://youtu.be/swKfkkkGgf0 for the video)
Figure 6.2 From Study 2: Aline’s LP
Figure 6.3 From Study 1: Sam’s LP
Figure 6.4 From Study 2: Filip’s LP
Figure 6.5 From Study 2: Esther’s LP
Figure 6.6 From Study 1: Delphine’s LP
Figure 6.7 From Study 2: Ole’s LP (cf. https://vimeo.com/321217750 for the video)
Figure 7.1 Location of Warruwi Community, nearby remote Indigenous communities and the regional capital Darwin
Figure 7.2 Languages used at Warruwi
Figure 7.3 Language families of Warruwi languages
Figure 7.4 Nancy Ngalmindjalmag describing her language portrait in 2013
Figure 7.5 Language portrait by Nancy Ngalmindjalmag, July 2011
Figure 7.6 Recording the language portrait for the Language Matters documentary, at Mardbalk Arts and Craft Centre, Warruwi, November 2013. Nancy Ngalmindjalmag sits on the left, Rosemary Urabadi on the right and Ruth Singer sits in the centre
Figure 7.7 Nancy’s second language portrait, November 2013
Figure 7.8 Rosemary Urabadi’s language portrait, November 2013, Warruwi
Figure 8.1 Expectations of the literacy club: 21 July 2015
Figure 9.1 Palesa’s language portrait
Figure 9.2 Lerato’s language portrait
Figure 9.3 Lady Lava Lamp’s language portrait
Figure 9.4 Sarah’s language portrait
Figure 9.5 Luca’s language portrait
Figure 9.6 Wandile’s language portrait
Figure 9.7 Samson’s photo of the Rooiplein on a warm winter’s day
Figure 9.8 Samson’s photo entitled ‘The “Men in Black” shields on standby and not a single black student/problem in sight’
Figure 10.1 Julie’s modelling of her Chinese reading and writing journey.
Figure 10.2 An example of a piece of creative non-fiction made by a student drawing on the details of her ‘langrid’ entitled ‘Victoria’s Piano Journey’ (see Appendix 10.1 for full text).
Figure 11.1 Worksheet ‘Media use and language’ (design by Andrea Sedlaczek)
Figure 11.2 Media diary – first double spread (design by Andrea Csiki-Keil)
Figure 11.3 Media diary – last double spread (desi