Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts

Aneta Pavlenko, Adrian Blackledge, Aneta Pavlenko, Adrian Blackledge

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9781853596469
• eBook ISBN:
  9781853596483
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

The volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable. The chapters address various ways in which individuals may be positioned or position themselves in a variety of contexts. In asking questions about social justice, about who has access to symbolic and material resources, about who is ‘in' and who is ‘out', the authors take account not only of localised linguistic behaviours, attitudes and beliefs; they also locate them in wider social contexts which include class, race, ethnicity, generation, gender and sexuality.  The volume makes a significant contribution to the development of theory in understanding identity negotiation and social justice in multilingual contexts.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Contributors
• Introduction: New Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts
• Chapter 1 ‘The Making of an American’ 1: Negotiation of Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• Chapter 2 Constructions of Identity in Political Discourse in Multilingual Britain
• Chapter 3 Negotiating Between Bourge and Racaille: Verlan as Youth Identity Practice in Suburban Paris 1011
• Chapter 4 Black Deaf or Deaf Black? Being Black and Deaf in Britain
• Chapter 5 Mothers and Mother Tongue: Perspectives on Self-Construction by Mothers of Pakistani Heritage
• Chapter 6 The Politics of Identity, Representation, and the Discourses of Self-identi.cation: Negotiating the Periphery and the Center 1011
• Chapter 7 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Foreign Language Learning and Identity Reconstruction
• Chapter 8 Intersections of Literacy and Construction of Social Identities
• Chapter 9 Multilingual Writers and the Struggle for Voice in Academic Discourse
• Chapter 10 Identity and Language Use: The Politics of Speaking ESL in Schools
• Chapter 11 Sending Mixed Messages: Language Minority Education at a Japanese Public Elementary School
• Index