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- Creese, Angela, et al.
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Researching Bilingual and Multilingual Education Multilingually : A Linguistic Ethnographic Approach
- 2015
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Ingår i: The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education. - Chichester, UK : Wiley-Blackwell. - 9781118533499 ; , s. 127-144
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter provides an opportunity to deconstruct the reflexive accounts researchers provide about their bilingualism. It describes how researchers wrote vignettes to discuss their role in the research team, and their researcher identities. These vignettes became an invaluable resource in the understandings of bilingualism as a social construct. Researching multilingualism involves bringing into play different voices which are in a complex and dynamic relationship with one another. There are discourses about equality which clash with discourses about social hierarchies; there are also discourses about bilingualism and blurred boundaries, which run concurrently with ideologies about language separation, ethnicity, and the right to represent. In selecting particular extracts, the chapter focuses on how notions of “language” and “bilingualism” appear in the vignettes, and shape one's research on multilingualism.
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- Milani, Tommaso M., 1973-
(författare)
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Debating Swedish : Language Politics and Ideology in Contemporary Sweden
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is concerned with three language debates that reached their most crucial peaks in Sweden at the beginning of the twenty-first century: (i) the debate on the promotion of the Swedish language, (ii) the debate on language testing for citizenship, and (iii) the debate on mother tongue instruction. The main scope of the thesis is to take a theoretically multi-pronged approach to these debates trying to shed light on the following aspects: Why did such debates emerge when they did? Which discourses were available in those specific historical moments? Who are the social actors that intervened in these debates? What is at stake for them? What do they claim? What systems of values, ideas and beliefs – i.e. ideologies – underlie such claims? What are the effects in terms of identities, objects of political intervention, commonsensical knowledge and authority that these discourses and ideologies produce?Taking Sweden as a case in point, the thesis adds to the existing literature another example of how language debates are the manifestation of conflicts between different language ideologies that struggle for hegemony, thus attempting to impose one specific way of envisaging the management of a nation-state in a time of globalisation. In their outer and most patent facets, these struggles deal with the relationships between languages in today’s Sweden, and how the state, through legislation, should – or should not – regulate such relationships in order to (re)produce some kind of linguistic order. However, the thesis also illustrates that when social actors appeal to a linguistic order, they not only draw boundaries between different languages in a given society, but they also bring into existence a social world in which the speakers of those languages come to occupy specific social positions. These linguistic and social hierarchies, in turn, are imbricated in an often implicit moral regime of what counts as good or bad, acceptable or taboo in that society.
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