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WP307 Decolonising language in the city: Multilingual repertoires, institutional practice and civic engagement in a UK urban setting
2023
In this paper I examine how multilingual spaces emerge within institutions across a number of sectors in the city. Drawing on their repertoires of linguistic resources actors (institutional agents and clients) assume agency to change practice and …
Key words: civic engagement, decolonisation, higher education, language policy, multilingualism
WP300 Sectors and the workplace in language teaching: Differences, links and alliances?
2022
How much do language educators working in schools, Further Education (FE), not-for-profit organisations and universities really have in common? Can we really talk about the professional identity of teachers and their freedom for manoeuvre without …
Key words: language education, multilingualism, sectors
WP265 Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingualism, Linguistic Citizenship & Epistemic Justice
2020
This paper explores in what ways language ? and multilingualism in particular ? can be rethought in order to further epistemic justice. In order to situate the question of language in a broader decolonial project, it starts by critically reviewing …
Key words: education, multilingualism
WP260 What do we mean by multilingual? Linguistic repertoires
2019
Instead of seeing multilingualism as a plurality of ?named languages?, this sociolinguistics briefing note argues that we should approach it as a repertoire of styles and linguistic resources, tuned to particular communicative settings and spheres of …
Key words: multilingualism
WP256 Call for a Multilingual Cities Movement
2019
We are academics and practitioners committed to multilingualism. Shared language is vital to social life, but linguistic diversity also plays a central role, and both the individual and society are enriched by language skills. We call on colleagues …
Key words: multilingualism
WP227 Language management and language work in a multilingual call center: An ethnographic case study
2017
Drawing on long-term ethnography and interviews, this paper investigates language work and language management in the context of a multilingual call center. It looks at how language issues are managed on a day-today basis, specifically in three areas …
Key words: language management, multilingualism
WP200 At the nexus of vulnerability: Multilingualism in development
2016
The majority of the world?s nations are multilingual, although many of the languages spoken have little or no official recognition in the conduct of everyday affairs of State, nor do they figure in any major way in development discourses. For …
Key words: multilingualism
WP182 Promoting multilingual creativity: Key principles from successful projects
2015
There are now over 1 million pupils in UK schools who speak English as an additional language (EAL). In intensely diverse contexts such as London this has thrown up new hybrid ways of using language. Rather than languages living neatly side by side, …
Key words: multilingualism, pedagogy
WP174 Multilingual classrooms in times of superdiversity
2015
In this paper, we discuss multilingual classrooms and superdiversity. More specifically we address the consequences that a revised understanding of language, based on the concept of language repertoires,? has for language education, as well as for …
Key words: education, multilingualism, superdiversity
WP166 Multilingualism and good citizenship: The making of language celebrities in Chinese media
2015
This paper examines the media representation of two otherwise ordinary Chinese citizens speaking multiple foreign languages.? It argues that the figure of good citizenship is being articulated via a valorization of? multilingual competence that is …
Key words: multilingualism
WP147 Text trajectories in a multilingual call centre: The linguistic ethnography of a calling script
2015
Call centres have been widely criticised as standardized workplaces, and the imposition of calling scripts is often characterised as dehumanizing and deskilling. But these accounts lack close analysis of how scripts are actually produced, taken up …
Key words: multilingualism
WP129 Mandarin Chinese in London education: Language aspirations in a working-class secondary school
2014
s the Council of Europe is shifting its traditional focus on learning European languages towards emphasizing the importance of speaking other languages of the wider world, an increasing number of schools are offering Mandarin as part of their …
Key words: institutional neoliberalization., language ideology, language policy, Mandarin language education, multilingualism
WP119 Urban vernaculars in contemporary northern Europe: Innovative variants of V2 in Germany, Norway and Sweden
2014
It has been relatively clear over the last years that multilingual settings support new linguistic variation and the emergence of new linguistic patterns. Contemporary urban vernaculars have emerged among adolescents in multilingual settings in large …
Key words: multilingualism
WP74 Standardisation, diversity and enlightenment in the contemporary crisis of EU language policy
2011
Contemporary EU multilingualism policy is in something of a crisis at the moment. The 2008 Final Report of the High-Level Group on Multilingualism, a group of eleven senior European academics convened in 2006, spells out some of the reasons (these …
Key words: multilingualism
WP71 Multilingual Europe 2.0: Dutch-Chinese youth identities in the era of superdiversity
2011
This paper argues that multilingual/multicultural identity in Europe has reached a next level since we have entered the era of superdiversity. Under superdiversity we are confronted with a diversification of diversity: relations between ethnicity, …
Key words: multilingualism
WP55 Community, commodification, cosmopolitanism: Salsa and ideologies of language in transnational settings
2008
Salsa, a global urban music and dance phenomenon, is an interesting example for the emergence of transnational cultural spheres. Salsa has its roots in the Americas but is enormously successful worldwide. While the language spoken on the dance floors …
Key words: community, multilingualism
WP52 Is class relevant in constructing a multilingual Europe?
2008
It is a commonplace of discussions of globalism, and of official European self-understanding, that multilingualism and linguistic diversity are unavoidable features of the contemporary world in general and of particular significance to the emerging …
Key words: class, multilingualism
WP47 Migration & multilingualism: Implications for linguistic anthropology and education research
2007
Large-scale migration has numerous consequences for both migrants and host societies. These have sociopolitical, cultural and linguistic dimensions, and can be phrased as the challenge of grappling, theoretically and practically, with volatile …
Key words: linguistic anthropology, multilingualism
WP22 Language and New Ethnicities ? Multilingual Youth and Diaspora
2003
Language shift and language maintenance have been useful heuristic notions, but they have always had an air of melancholia about them, linked with terms such as language loss and language death.? This paper explores how these sociolinguistic concerns …
Key words: multilingualism