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New Approaches to Language and Identity in Contexts of Migration and Diaspora
New Approaches to Language and Identity in Contexts of Migration and Diaspora draws together expertise and contemporary research findings in respect of language and identity in migrant and diasporic contexts throughout the world.
Over thirteen chapters, contributors examine the intersection between migration, language, and identity through analyses of migration discourses, language practices, and legal policy, as well as the ideologies embedded and revealed within them. A wide range of subject areas and interdisciplinary approaches are represented, with fifteen authors drawn from the fields of education, intercultural communication, linguistics, geography, migration studies, psychology, and sociology.
This volume will primarily appeal to scholars and researchers in fields such as migration, intercultural communication, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, multilingualism, and heritage language learning.
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1. Language and identity in Contexts of Migration and Diaspora – Introductory Remarks
Stuart Dunmore, Karolina Rosiak and Charlotte Taylor
2. “And suddenly the foreign, the Other, is no longer so foreign”: Polish Café as a grassroots initiative of linguistic integration
Karolina Rosiak
3. “I think I speak European!”: Tracing immigrant identities in Edinburgh, Scotland
Zuzana Elliott
4. Divergent language ideologies in a transatlantic minority: Gaelic in Scotland and Nova Scotia
Stuart Dunmore
5. Degrees of Belonging in Diasporic Contexts: Indexical scales of Vietnamese-ness in the UK
6. Formation and life course impact of language identity: A case study of Japanese returnees from China
Yue Teng
7. Hybrid Language Identity of the Second-Generation Immigrants in Cyprus
Sviatlana Karpava
8. Language Landscapes and Native Resilience: Land-Connectivity, Language, and Identity among Urban Native Americans
Aresta Tsosie-Paddock, Liz Redd & Robert William Autry
9. Language, accent and the experience of belonging for the second-generation Irish from England
Sara Hannafin
10. Linguistic Identity of the second generation of Arabic speakers in Italy
Alma Salem & Isabella Chiari
11. Narratives of (un)belonging: Language management and identity negotiations in two immigrant families in New Zealand
Naashia Mohamed
12. The Performance of Agentic Identity by Refugees in Edinburgh: challenging the Victim Frame.
Iain Philip
13. Epilogue and Future research directions in migration, language and identity
Karolina Rosiak, Stuart Dunmore and Charlotte Taylor
Index
Biography
Stuart Dunmore is an associate tutor at the Institute for Language Education in the University of Edinburgh. His research examines language ideologies, minority language use and cultural identities, with particular reference to Celtic language communities in the UK and North America. In 2022 he was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University.
Karolina Rosiak is an assistant professor at the Celtic Studies Research Unit, Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research examines the sociolinguistics of the Welsh language, linguistic aspects of Polish migration to Wales, with a particular focus on language attitudes and ideologies, and cultural ties between Wales and Poland.
Charlotte Taylor is a professor of discourse and persuasion at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are centred on language use, discourse analysis, and pragmatics, particularly in relation to politeness, migration, nostalgia, and metaphor.
