Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

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1. Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography

   Edited by Sheena Gardner, Marilyn Martin-Jones

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   Over the last twenty years, sociolinguistic research on multilingualism has been transformed. Two processes have been at work: first, an epistemological shift to a critical ethnographic approach, which has contributed to a larger turn toward post-structuralist perspectives on social life. Second,...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
2. Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing

   Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse

   Edited by Mark Sebba, Shahrzad Mahootian, Carla Jonsson

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   "Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
3. Language in Late Capitalism

   Pride and Profit

   Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Monica Heller

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge