The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies

Description

Timely response to the marked and growing interest in the notion of linguistic citizenship

This volume aims to capture evidence of marginalized voices in various contexts globally and show how speakers seek to reclaim their voices and challenge power relations. The chapters reveal how speakers actively confront inequities in society such as the unequal distribution of resources. Through bottom-up initiatives and conscious involvement in language use, documentation and the development of language domains, speakers can address issues of language-based marginalization, (re)establish linguistic human rights and reclaim their linguistic and cultural identity. Chapters in the volume explore commitments to democratic participation, to voice, to the heterogeneity of linguistic resources and to the political value of sociolinguistic understanding. Drawing upon the framework of linguistic citizenship, they link questions of language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, rights and equity, as well as to issues of power and access within a political and democratic framework.

Contributors

Julia Gspandl, Christina Korb, Angelika Heiling and Elizabeth J. Erling: The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies: An Introduction

Part 1. Multilingual Practices

Chapter 1. Mary Edward: Multilingualism in Adamorobe and the Case for Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL)

Chapter 2. Agnes Grond: Şexbizinî Facebook Groups: Virtual Communities as Spaces for Practice, Maintenance and Exploration of an Endangered Language        

Chapter 3. Vlada V. Baranova: The Grassroots Initiatives for the Revitalization of Kalmyk: Who is Involved in Language Planning, and How?

Part 2. Facilitating Voice

Chapter 4. Sandra Radinger: Reclaiming Voice in the Austrian Refugee Context through Experiences of Ambiguity

Chapter 5. Melissa Barnes and Katrina Tour: Giving Voice to Mothers from Refugee Backgrounds: Their Agentic Roles in Children’s Learning

Chapter 6. Anik Nandi, Maite Garcia-Ruiz and Ibon Manterola: Reclaiming Voice through Family Language Policies: Parental (Socio)linguistic Citizenship in Castilian-Spanish-Dominated Multilingual Settings

Part 3. Building Communities of Voicing

Chapter 7. Danny Foster: (Socio)linguistic Citizenship in Rural Tanzania: A Perspective from the Capability Approach       

Chapter 8. Eilidh McEwan: Deaf Capabilities in the Global South: Reflections on Sign Languages and Emancipation Using the Capabilities Approach

Chapter 9. Khoi Nguyen: Forming (Socio)linguistic Citizenship through Philanthropy on Facebook Pages of the Vietnamese Diaspora in the UK

Chapter 10. Phoebe Siu, Bong-gi Sohn and Angel M.Y. Lin: Reclaiming a Plurilingual Voice in EMI Classrooms: Co-creating Translanguaging Space through the Multimodalities-Entextualisation Cycle

Ben Rampton, Mel Cooke, Constant Leung, Dermot Bryers, Becky Winstanley and Sam Holmes: Afterword: Localising (Socio)linguistic Citizenship

Index

Sujets

• Disciplines
• Language Arts
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Linguistics
• Sociology
• Multilingualism
• Professional
• Postgraduate education
• General officer
• Sociolinguistics
• General
• Research
• Postgraduate
• Migration
• Discrimination

Informations

• Publié par: Channel View Publications
• Date de parution: 07 juillet 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781800412057
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

Extrait

The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies
CRITICAL LANGUAGE AND LITERACY STUDIES
Series Editors : Professor Alastair Pennycook ( University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ) and Professor Brian Morgan ( Glendon College/York University, Toronto, Canada ) and Professor Ryuko Kubota ( University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada )
Critical Language and Literacy Studies is an international series that encourages monographs directly addressing issues of power (its flows, inequities, distributions, trajectories) in a variety of language- and literacy-related realms. The aim with this series is twofold: (1) to cultivate scholarship that openly engages with social, political, and historical dimensions in language and literacy studies, and (2) to widen disciplinary horizons by encouraging new work on topics that have received little focus (see below for partial list of subject areas) and that use innovative theoretical frameworks.
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.
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CRITICAL LANGUAGE AND LITERACY STUDIES: 29
The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies
Edited by
Julia Gspandl, Christina Korb, Angelika Heiling and Elizabeth J. Erling
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
Bristol • Jackson
DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/GSPAND2033
Names: Gspandl, Julia, editor. | Korb, Christina, editor. | Heiling, Angelika, editor. |
Erling, Elizabeth J., editor.
Title: The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies/Edited by Julia Gspandl, Christina Korb, Angelika Heiling, and Elizabeth J. Erling.
Description: Bristol; Jackson: Multilingual Matters, [2023] | Series: Critical Language
and Literacy Studies: 29 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary: “Drawing upon the framework of linguistic citizenship, the chapters in this
book link questions of language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, rights and equity, as well as to issues of power and access. They present powerful evidence of how marginalized speakers reclaim their voices and challenge power relations” —
Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2023007264 (print) | LCCN 2023007265 (ebook) | ISBN 9781800412026 (paperback) | ISBN 9781800412033 (hardback) | ISBN 9781800412040 (pdf) | ISBN 9781800412057 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Multilingualism—Social aspects. | Sociolinguistics. |
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Contents
Contributors
Series Editors' Preface
The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies: An Introduction
Julia Gspandl, Christina Korb, Angelika Heiling and Elizabeth J. Erling
Part 1 : Multilingual Practices
1 Multilingualism in Adamorobe and the Case for Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL)
Mary Edward
2 Ş exbizinî Facebook Groups: Virtual Communities as Spaces for Practice, Maintenance and Exploration of an Endangered Language
Agnes Grond
3 The Grassroots Initiatives for the Revitalization of Kalmyk: Who is Involved in Language Planning, and How?
Vlada V. Baranova
Part 2 : Facilitating Voice
4 Reclaiming Voice in the Austrian Refugee Context through Experiences of Ambiguity
Sandra Radinger
5 Giving Voice to Mothers from Refugee Backgrounds: Their Agentic Roles in Children’s Learning
Melissa Barnes and Katrina Tour
6 Reclaiming Voice through Family Language Policies: Parental (Socio)linguistic Citizenship in Castilian-Spanish-Dominated Multilingual Settings
Anik Nandi, Maite Garcia-Ruiz and Ibon Manterola
Part 3 : Building Communities of Voicing
7 (Socio)linguistic Citizenship in Rural Tanzania: A Perspective from the Capability Approach
Danny Foster
8 Deaf Capabilities in the Global South: Reflections on Sign Languages and Emancipation Using the Capabilities Approach
Eilidh McEwan
9 Forming (Socio)linguistic Citizenship through Philanthropy on Facebook Pages of the Vietnamese Diaspora in the UK
Khoi Nguyen
10 Reclaiming a Plurilingual Voice in EMI Classrooms: Co-creating Translanguaging Space through the Multimodalities-Entextualisation Cycle
Phoebe Siu, Bong-gi Sohn and Angel M.Y. Lin
Afterword: Localising (Socio)linguistic Citizenship
Ben Rampton, Mel Cooke, Constant Leung, Dermot Bryers, Becky Winstanley and Sam Holmes
Index
Contributors
Vlada Baranova graduated from St. Petersburg State University, and European University at St. Petersburg (sociolinguistics), PhD in anthropology (2007). She worked as an Associate Professor at the High School of Economics Campus in St. Petersburg and resigned in 2022. Her research interest are in the fields of multilingualism, language revitalization and language documentation. She is also particularly interested in language activism and how networks efforts of individual actors can interact with policymakers and official language planning.
Melissa Barnes is Associate Professor at the School of Education at La Trobe University and is an adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University. Her research interests are situated within the fields of teacher education, pedagogy, assessment, policy and TESOL. She has recently led research initiatives which focus on policy construction, interpretation, and enactment, with a focus on how policies impact and shape teaching and learning. Melissa is trained as both a primary school and an English as an Additional Language (EAL) teacher. Melissa has published in journals such as Teaching and Teacher Education, Critical Studies in Education and Educational Review .
Dermot Bryers founded and co-runs the adult education charity English for Action (EFA), London. He currently teaches ESOL in three communities in London (Greenwich, Streatham and Battersea) and delivers training in participatory ESOL for teachers and activists across the country. Along with his colleagues and students, he is involved in several campaigns, including the Living Wage Campaign, Action for ESOL (defending ESOL from funding cuts) and local campaigns led by students on issues such as affordable housing. Alongside colleagues Becky Winstanley and Melanie Cooke, he has published research on participatory methods and is currently working on a project called ‘Our Languages’ in collaboration with King’s College London where he is an Associate Researcher.
Mel Cooke is currently Lecturer in ESOL Education at King’s College, London. Her books include Brokering Britain, Educating Citizens (2019, with Rob Pe