Multilingualism
What does it mean to young people to be multilingual? What do multilingual speakers' linguistic resources mean to them? Are they happy to discard their languages, and assimilate to English, or are there other issues at stake? Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese address these questions, taking a critical perspective to examine issues such as nationalism, heritage, culture, identity negotiation, ideology, and power. A comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding multilingualism, this...
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Examines the role of nationalism, heritage, culture, identity negotiation, ideology and power in multilingualism.
Acknowledgements viiiNote on transcription ix1 Opening up multilingual spaces 12 Multilingualism, ideology and practice 253 Ethnography of multilingualism 584 A multilingual research team 825 Separate and flexible bilingualism in complementary schools 1086 Official and carnival lives in the classroom 1247 Multilingual literacies across space and time 1458 Contesting 'language' as 'heritage' 1649 Inventing and disinventing the national 18110 Translanguaging as pedagogy in the bilingual classroom 20111 Multilingualism: future trajectories 215References 226Index 247
