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Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship
This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of
multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of
linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a
theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic
citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand
sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular
on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies.
The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and
radical social transformations in democracies in the north and
south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a
resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics.
Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship
by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice)
should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize
what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and
agency.
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Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes
This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of ‘places’. It explores what it means to be in place, the variety of ways in which meanings of place are made and how relationships to others are mediated through the linguistic and material semiotics of place. Drawing on examples of linguistic landscapes (LL) over the world, such as gentrified landscapes in Johannesburg and Brunswick, Mozambican memorializations, volatile train graffiti in Stockholm, Brazilian protest marches, Guadeloupian Creole signs, microscapes of souvenirs in Guinea-Bissau and old landscapes of apartheid in South Africa in contemporary time, this book explores how we are what we are through how we are emplaced. Across these examples, world-leading contributors explore how LLs contribute to the (re)imagining of different selves in the living past (living the past in the present), alternative presents and imagined futures. It focuses particularly on how the LL in all of these mediations is read through emotionality and affect, creating senses of belonging, precarity and hope across a simultaneous multiplicity of worlds. The volume offers a reframing of linguistics landscape research in a geohumanities framework emphasizing negotiations of self in place in LL studies, building upon a rich body of LL research. With over 40 illustrations, it covers various methodological and epistemological issues, such as the need for extended temporal engagement with landscapes, a mobile approach to landscapes and how bodies engage with texts.
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Handbook of marine fisheries conservation and management
This handbook is the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary work on marine conservation and fisheries management ever compiled. Its many valuable contributions offer a way forward to both understanding and resolving the multifaceted problems facing the world's oceans.
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