Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World
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Overview
Multilingualisms vary. Given such variation, how can those from essentially mono-chromatic, monolingual backgrounds begin to appreciate the colorful multilingual realities of the majority world? This question led to the symposium Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World, May 10–15, 2018, in Penang, Malaysia. This resulting four-part collection of papers:
focuses on different models for understanding the dynamics of multiples—multiple languages, multiple identities, and the relationship between the two;
looks at varying social and geographic contexts of multilingualism, including urban, diaspora, refugee, and cross-border settings;
examines the history and adequacy of the term “heart language” as it has come to be used especially by organizations and practitioners of Bible translation in the West;
describes a range of multilingual situations in South Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Madagascar, and Africa.
The concluding chapter seeks to build on the contributions of the overall symposium by suggesting a research agenda for furthering our understanding of language and identity in our multilingual, migrating world.
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- Focuses on different models for understanding the dynamics of multiples—multiple languages and multiple identities.
- Looks at varying social and geographic contexts of multilingualism.
- Examines the history and adequacy of the term “heart language” as it has come to be used.
- Introduction
- Part One, Understanding Multiples
- Identity Choices of Minoritized Communities: Testing the Identity Construction Factors
- Remembering Ethnicity: The Role of Language in the Construction of Identity
- The Dynamics of Identity: How Migration and Diaspora Impact Identity and Multilingualism
- Identity and Melting Pots: Negotiating Identity by Resisting or Pursuing Accommodation
- Part Two, Varying Contexts
- New Urban Varieties in Africa and the Identities That Go with Them
- Trans-languaging, Identity, and Education in Our Multilingual World
- Identity and Diaspora: Making Personal Identity Claims through Relational Networks
- Hidden Language, Hidden Identity: Identity Issues of Refugees from Minority Language Groups
- African Cross-Border Languages: Might or Plight?
- Part Three, Heart Matters
- “Heart Language” as a Technical Term: A Critical Review
- L1 and L2 Comprehension and Emotional Impact among Early Proficient Bilinguals
- When None of My Heart Languages Is My Mother Tongue
- Reflections on “Language of the Heart” or “Acquired Reflex Language”
- Part Four, Descriptive Studies
- Linguistic Identity and Dialect Diversity: A Conundrum with Regard to Magar Kham
- Hiding Your Identity: The Case of Talysh
- Language Choice and Language Attitudes in Identity Formation among the Roma of Sadova
- Ethnolinguistic Landscapes of Madagascar: Surviving a Century of Erosive Language Policies
- Multilingualism, Urbanization, and Identity among the Ejagham Speaking People
- Ethnologue as a Sourcebook for Mapping Multilingualism: The Case of Sango
- Afterword
- The Research Agenda Going Forward
- Contributors
- Title: Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World
- Authors: Stephen J. Quakenbush, Gary F. Simons
- Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Pages: 342
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781556715013, 9781556714559, 1556715013, 1556714556
- Resource ID: LLS:LNGGDNTTYMGWRLD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-11T20:47:59Z