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The Multilingual Citizen

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The Multilingual Citizen

Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change

Various AuthorsSeries: Encounters (Channel View Publications)

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Year

2018

Language

English

Channel View Publications

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In this groundbreaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to support. The chapters discuss issues of decoloniality and multilingualism in the global South, and together retheorize how to accommodate diversity in complexly multilingual/ multicultural societies. Offering a framework anchored in transformative notions of democratic and reflexive citizenship, it prompts readers to critically rethink how existing contemporary frameworks such as Linguistic Human Rights rest on disempowering forms of multilingualism that channel discourses of diversity into specific predetermined cultural and linguistic identities.

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Civics & Citizenship
Political Science
Adult Nonfiction
Human Rights
Civil Rights
General (Linguistics)
Linguistics
Language Arts & Disciplines
General (Cultural & Ethnic Studies)
Cultural & Ethnic Studies
Social Science

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"This volume is particularly useful for researchers interested in theoretical and methodological considerations of multilingualism and the facilitation of speaker agency in linguistic research."

Leonie Schulte, University of Oxford, UK

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