BOOK

Language, space and identity in migration

Liebscher, Grit, 1968- author, Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer, author

2013

Overview

\"This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using a mixed-method approach. The unique interview data on which the analysis is based (and therefore the lens through which these issues are viewed) stem from the German urban immigrant community in Canada, but the results and findings have implications for situations of migration throughout this increasingly globalized world. Through this transcontinental perspective, this book makes a new contribution to the literature on both language and identity and language and globalization. Drawing on an interactional analysis, the focus in this book is on the relationship between interactional intricacies and larger questions in society addressing the ways in which migrants' moves between places affects the construction of their identities as well as sociolinguistic spaces at large. This includes the dynamic positioning of migrants, the use of multilingual tools as well as non-linguistic resources and the ways in which language attitudes may affect all of these. \"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Sociolinguistics. / Linguistic minorities. / Intercultural communication. / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Linguistics - General. / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Linguistics - Sociolinguistics. / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - General.
• ISBN: 9780230291010, 0230291015

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
P40.L49 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE