Researching multilingualism : critical and ethnographic perspectives /

Martin-Jones, Marilyn

Researching multilingualism : critical and ethnographic perspectives / [Book] edited by Marilyn Martin-Jones and Deirdre Martin. - xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"This volume builds on research activities that were developed under the auspices of a research capacity-building project (May 2010 to April 2013) entitled: Researching multilingualism, multilingualism in research practice.The final conference for this project was held on the 25th and 26th March, 2013 at the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK."

Researching Multilingualism expertly engages with a new sociolinguistics of multilingualism, taking account of this new communicative order and the particular cultural and social conditions of our times. Seventeen chapters are divided into four sections covering: researching discourses, policies and practices; contemporary mobilities; Researching multilingual communication on-line; Multilingualism in research practice. This state-of-the-art overview of research methodologies in multilingual settings will be of interest for all students and researchers working in the area of multilingualism within Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Education and Communication Studies.

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Multilingualism--Social aspects--Research.
Intercultural communication--Research.
Sociolinguistics--Research.
Intercultural communication--Research.

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