LEADER 03922nam 22005895 450 001 9910255130803321 005 20251116160613.0 010 $a9783319412436 010 $a3319412434 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-41243-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000765722 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-41243-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4616763 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000765722 100 $a20160728d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTranslingual Practices and Neoliberal Policies $eAttitudes and Strategies of African Skilled Migrants in Anglophone Workplaces /$fby Suresh Canagarajah 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 66 p.) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Linguistics,$x2197-0017 311 08$a9783319412429 311 08$a3319412426 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction -- Critical discussion -- Neoliberal orientation to language -- Comparing neoliberalism with translingual practice -- Language policy and practice in skilled migration -- Pedagogical implications. 330 $aThis book responds to recent criticisms that the research and theorization of multilingualism on the part of applied linguists are in collusion with neoliberal policies and economic interests. While acknowledging that neoliberal agencies can appropriate diverse languages and language practices, including resources and dispositions theorized by scholars of multilingualism, it argues that a distinction must be made between the different language ideologies informing communicative practices. Those of neoliberal agencies are motivated by distinct ideological orientations that diverge from the theorization of multilingual practices by critical applied linguists. In addressing this issue, the book draws on the author?s empirical research on skilled migration to demonstrate how sub-Saharan African professionals in English-dominant workplaces in the UK, USA, Australia, and South Africa resist the neoliberal communicative expectations and employ alternate practices informed by critical dispositions. These practices have the potential to transform neoliberal orientations on material development. The book labels the latter as informed by a postcolonial language ideology, to distinguish them from those of neoliberalism. While neoliberal agencies approach languages as being instrumental for profit-making purposes, the author?s informants focus on the synergy between languages to generate new meanings and norms, which are strategically negotiated in pursuit of ethical interests, inclusive interactions, and holistic ecological development. As such, the book clearly illustrates that the way critical scholars and multilinguals relate to language diversity is different from the way neoliberal policies and agencies use multilingualism for their own purposes. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Linguistics,$x2197-0017 606 $aEducation and state 606 $aLanguage policy 606 $aEmigration and immigration 606 $aEducational Policy and Politics 606 $aLanguage Policy and Planning 606 $aHuman Migration 615 0$aEducation and state. 615 0$aLanguage policy. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration. 615 14$aEducational Policy and Politics. 615 24$aLanguage Policy and Planning. 615 24$aHuman Migration. 676 $a338.96 700 $aCanagarajah$b A. Suresh$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0686298 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255130803321 996 $aTranslingual Practices and Neoliberal Policies$94471354 997 $aUNINA