Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration
Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration

Author: Barbara Geraghty

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1441135693

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At the heart of this volume lies an exploration of what actually happens to languages and their users when cultures come into contact. What actions do supra-national institutions, nation states, communities and individuals take in response to questions raised by the increasingly diverse forms of migration experienced in a globalized world? The volume reveals the profound impact that decisions made at national and international level can have on the lives of the individual migrant, language student, or speech community. Equally, it evaluates the broader ramifications of actions taken by migrant communities and individual language learners around issues of language learning, language maintenance and intercultural contact. Reflecting Jan Blommaert's assertion that in a world shaped by globalization, what is needed is 'a theory of language in society... of changing language in a changing society', this volume argues that researchers must increasingly seek diverse methodological approaches if they are to do justice to the diversity of experience and response they encounter.

Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration
Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration

Author: Barbara Geraghty

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1472585135

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At the heart of this volume lies an exploration of what actually happens to languages and their users when cultures come into contact. What actions do supra-national institutions, nation states, communities and individuals take in response to questions raised by the increasingly diverse forms of migration experienced in a globalized world? The volume reveals the profound impact that decisions made at national and international level can have on the lives of the individual migrant, language student, or speech community. Equally, it evaluates the broader ramifications of actions taken by migrant communities and individual language learners around issues of language learning, language maintenance and intercultural contact. Reflecting Jan Blommaert's assertion that in a world shaped by globalization, what is needed is 'a theory of language in society... of changing language in a changing society', this volume argues that researchers must increasingly seek diverse methodological approaches if they are to do justice to the diversity of experience and response they encounter.

Intercultural Challenges for the Reintegration of Displaced Professionals
Intercultural Challenges for the Reintegration of Displaced Professionals

Author: Tony Johnstone Young

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781032199696

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"This book critically reflects on the challenges faced by refugee aspirant professionals in securing employment and the ways in which professional intercultural competence development and attendant language learning practices can help facilitate the professional (re)integration of these communities"--

Language and Migration
Language and Migration

Author: Tony Capstick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-09

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1351207709

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Language and Migration provides a lively introduction to the relationship between language and migration. Drawing on real-world case studies from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and New Zealand, this book investigates the language and literacy practices which sustain, extend, or curb different forms of migration. Individual trajectories, family networks, and societal level policy are examined through an interdisciplinary perspective on empires and colonialism, transnationalism, and globalization. Exploring the linguistic diversity which has resulted from voluntary and forced migration, this book covers theories from migration studies, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, sociology, and education studies, and offers broad coverage of different contexts of migration across the globe. It provides students and teachers with: Migration theories to interrogate current thinking on human mobility. Concepts from applied linguistics combined with other disciplines to explore complex migration experiences in countries of origin and destination. A critical understanding of language and power in economic migration and forced migration. An introduction to the role of language in broader debates about the impact of migration on national and international policies such as international development, global security, and education. Practical guidance on using discourse analysis to identify how migrant identities are constructed in the media and how this affects our understandings of asylum, immigration, and social cohesion. Featuring a range of activities and case studies in each chapter, Language and Migration is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying this topic.

Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy
Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy

Author: Zsuzsanna Abrams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-08-27

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1108490158

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Using diverse language examples and tasks, this book illustrates how intercultural communication theory can inform second language teaching.

Multilingual Families in a Digital Age
Multilingual Families in a Digital Age

Author: Kristin Vold Lexander

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-19

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1000870413

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This book offers new insights into transnational family life in today’s digital age, exploring the media resources and language practices parents and children employ toward maintaining social relationships in digital interactions and constructing transnational family bonds and identities. The book seeks to expand the boundaries of existing research on family multilingualism, in which digital communication has been little studied until now. Drawing on ethnographic studies of four families of Senegalese background in Norway, Lexander and Androutsopoulos develop an integrated approach which weaves together participants’ linguistic choices for situated interaction, the affordances of digital technologies, and the families’ language and media ideologies. The book explores such key themes as the integration of linguistic and media resources in family repertoires, creative practices of digital translanguaging, engagement in diaspora practices, and opportunities of digital communication for the development of children's heritage language skills. With an innovative perspective on ‘doing family’ in the digital age, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, sociolinguistics, digital communication, language and communication, and language and media.

Migration, Education and Translation
Migration, Education and Translation

Author: Vivienne Anderson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-08

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1000740862

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This multidisciplinary collection examines the connections between education, migration and translation across school and higher education sectors, and a broad range of socio-geographical contexts. Organised around the themes of knowledge, language, mobility, and practice, it brings together studies from around the world to offer a timely critique of existing practices that privilege some ways of knowing and communicating over others. With attention to issues of internationalisation, forced migration, minorities and indigenous education, this volume asks how the dominance of English in education might be challenged, how educational contexts that privilege bi- and multi-lingualism might be re-imagined, what we might learn from existing educational practices that privilege minority or indigenous languages, and how we might exercise ‘linguistic hospitality’ in a world marked by high levels of forced migration and educational mobility. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in education, migration and intercultural communication.

Language, Space and Identity in Migration
Language, Space and Identity in Migration

Author: G. Liebscher

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-11-08

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1137316438

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This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada. Through this transcontinental perspective, the book makes a new contribution to the literature on both language and identity and language and globalization.

Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration
Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration

Author: Jean E. Conacher

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2014

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781472542212

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"At the heart of this volume lies an exploration of what actually happens to languages and their users when cultures come into contact. What actions do supra-national institutions, nation states, communities and individuals take in response to questions raised by the increasingly diverse forms of migration experienced in a globalized world? The volume reveals the profound impact that decisions made at national and international level can have on the lives of the individual migrant, language student, or speech community. Equally, it evaluates the broader ramifications of actions taken by migrant communities and individual language learners around issues of language learning, language maintenance and intercultural contact. Reflecting Jan Blommaert's assertion that in a world shaped by globalization, what is needed is 'a theory of language in society ... of changing language in a changing society', this volume argues that researchers must increasingly seek diverse methodological approaches if they are to do justice to the diversity of experience and response they encounter"--

Dynamics of Language Contact
Dynamics of Language Contact

Author: Michael G. Clyne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-03-20

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780521786485

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Discusses disparate findings to examine the dynamics of contact between languages in an immigrant context.