2nd Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism

Edited By Carolyn McKinney, Pinky Makoe, Virginia Zavala Copyright 2024
528 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

528 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

528 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of the field of multilingualism for a global readership and an overview of the research which situates multilingualism in its social, cultural and political context. This fully revised edition not only updates several of the original chapters but introduces many new ones that enrich contemporary debates in the burgeoning... Read more

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction: Critical and decolonial approaches to multilingualism in global perspective

Carolyn McKinney, Virginia Zavala and Pinky Makoe

PART 1

Coloniality and Multilingualism

1. Lessons for decolonization from pre-colonial translingualism

Indika Liyanage and Suresh Canagarajah

2. Looking at multilingualisms from the Global South

Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook

3. (De)colonial multilingual/multimodal practices: Resisting and re-existing voices from Latin America

Mario E. López-Gopar, Lorena Córdova-Hernández and Jorge Valtierra Zamudio

4. Raciolinguistic ideologies

Frances Kvietok Dueñas and Sofía Chaparro

5. Unequal Englishes in the Global South

Ruanni Tupas

PART 2

Concepts and Theories in Multilingualism

6. Materialities and ontologies: Thinking multilingualism through language materiality, post-humanism and new materialism

Catherine Kell and Gabrielle Budach

7. Translanguaging and trans-semiotising

Marianne Turner and Angel M.Y. Lin

8. Multilingualism and Multimodality

Robyn Tyler and Beatha Set

9. Indigenous language and education rights

Stephen May

10. Linguistic Citizenship

Christopher Stroud

11. Multilingual Literacies

Dorris S. Warriner, Anjanette Griego and Agra Rajapakse 

12. Digital Multilingualism

Sirpa Leppänen and Shaila Sultana

PART 3

Multilingualism and Education

13. Indigenous education and multilingualism: Global perspectives and local experiences

Susana Ayala, Julieta Briseño-Roa and Elsie Rockwell

14. Multilingualism and languages of learning and teaching in post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa

Feliciano Chimbutane

15. Decolonizing multilingual pedagogies

Prem Phyak, Maite T. Sánchez, Leketi Makalela and Ofelia García

16. Opening (up) spaces for multilingual learning and teaching practices in South African Higher Education: A decolonial perspective

Kate le Roux and Pinky Makoe

17. Translanguaging pedagogies in the Global South: Review of classroom practices and interventions

Yonas Asfaha, Massimiliano Spotti and Khalid Idris

18. Language education and the COVID-19 global pandemic

Kathryn Henderson, Zhonfeng Tian, Bedrettin Yazan, Fabiana Stalnaker and Madhavi Usgaonker

PART 4

Multilingualism in Social and Cultural Change

19. Multilingualism, the new economy and the neoliberal governance of speakers

Luisa Martín Rojo

20. Sociolinguistics and (in)securitisation as another mode of governance

Ben Rampton, Daniel N. Silva and Constadina Charalambous

21. The multilingualism of global academic research and communication practices

Mary Jane Curry, Theresa Lillis, Adel Alsheri, Onesmo Mushi and Xiatinghan Xu

22. Multilingualism and hip hop

Quentin Williams

23. Media as sites of multilingualism

Patience Afrakoma hMensa and Helen Kelly-Holmes

PART 5

Multilingualism in Public Life

24. Multilingualism in the workplace: issues of space and social order

Kamilla Kraft and Mi-Cha Flubacher

25. Multilingualism during disasters and emergencies

Jia Li, Jie Zhang and Ingrid Piller

26. Multilingualism in asylum and migration procedures

Katrijn Maryns, Laura Smith-Khan and Marie Jacobs

27. Multilingualism and translation

Philipp Angermeyer

28. Multilingualism and linguistic landscapes

Felix Banda and Gabriel Simungala

29. Afterword

Marilyn Martin-Jones

Index

Biography

Carolyn McKinney is Professor in Language Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Pinky Makoe is Associate Professor in the Department of Education and Curriculum Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Virginia Zavala is Professor of Sociolinguistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima.

The new edition of this Handbook brings a much needed critical and decolonising angle to the study of multilingualism. The expanded coverage ensures that it is a valuable resource for scholars of different backgrounds and an essential reference for many years to come.

-- Li Wei, UCL Institute of Education, UK