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Autore: | Clark Julie Byrd |
Titolo: | Multilingualism, citizenship and identity [[electronic resource] ] : voices of youth and symbolic investments in an urban, globalized world / / Julie Byrd Clark |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.446 |
Soggetto topico: | Language and languages - Study and teaching - Canada |
Second language acquisition - Canada | |
Language and culture - Globalization - Canada | |
Bilingualism - Canada | |
Linguistic minorities - Education - Canada | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface: Multilingualism, Citizenship, and Identity; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Overlapping Identities, Symbolic Investments, and New Discursive Spaces; Chapter Two: Exploring Discourses and Interconnections between Globalization, Multilingualism, Multiculturalism, and Identity; Chapter Three: An ethnographie à géométrie variable: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations; Chapter Four: Voices of Youth and Symbolic Investments: A Unique Case Study; Chapter Five: Appropriating and Negotiating Symbolic Investments: Strategies across, between, and within Multiple Spaces |
Conclusion: Implications and Future Directions for Interdisciplinary ResearchAppendix: Linguistic Participant Profiles; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Through an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that combines critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multi-modality, reflexivity, and discourse analysis, this groundbreaking book reveals the multiple (and sometimes simultaneous) ways in which individuals engage and invest in representations of languages and identities. This timely work is the first to consider the significance of multilingualism and its relationship to citizenship as well as the development of linguistic repertoires as an essential component of language education in a globalized world. While examining the discourses and in |
Titolo autorizzato: | Multilingualism, citizenship and identity |
ISBN: | 1-282-59074-X |
9786612590740 | |
1-4411-7875-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910780821403321 |
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