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Multilingualism, Citizenship, and Identity - Voices of Youth and Symbolic Investments in an Urban, Globalized World (Hardcover)
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Multilingualism, Citizenship, and Identity - Voices of Youth and Symbolic Investments in an Urban, Globalized World (Hardcover)
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"Through an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that combines
critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multi-modality, reflexivity,
and discourse analysis, this groundbreaking book reveals the
multiple (and sometimes simultaneous) ways in which individuals
engage and invest in representations of languages and
identities.This timely work is the first to consider the
significance of multilingualism and its relationship to citizenship
as well as the development of linguistic repertoires as an
essential component of language education in a globalized world.
While examining the discourses and interconnections between
multilingualism, globalization, and identity, the author draws upon
a unique case study of the experiences, voices, trajectories, and
journeys of Canadian youth of Italian origin from diverse social,
geographical, and linguistic backgrounds, participating in
university French language courses as well as training to become
teachers of French in the urban, multicultural and global landscape
of Toronto, Canada. In doing so, Byrd Clark skilfully illustrates
the multidimensional ways that youth invest in language learning
and socially construe their multiple identities within diverse
contexts while weaving in and out of particularistic and
universalistic identifications. This invaluable resource will not
only shed light on how and why people engage in learning languages
and for which languages they choose to invest, but will offer
readers a deeper understanding of the complex interrelationships
between multilingualism, identity, and citizenship. It will appeal
to researchers in a variety of fields, including applied
linguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and linguistic
anthropology."
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