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Translingual Practices and Neoliberal Policies - Attitudes and Strategies of African Skilled Migrants in Anglophone Workplaces (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
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Translingual Practices and Neoliberal Policies - Attitudes and Strategies of African Skilled Migrants in Anglophone Workplaces (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
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This book responds to recent criticisms that the research and
theorization of multilingualism on the part of applied linguists
are in collusion with neoliberal policies and economic interests.
While acknowledging that neoliberal agencies can appropriate
diverse languages and language practices, including resources and
dispositions theorized by scholars of multilingualism, it argues
that a distinction must be made between the different language
ideologies informing communicative practices. Those of neoliberal
agencies are motivated by distinct ideological orientations that
diverge from the theorization of multilingual practices by critical
applied linguists. In addressing this issue, the book draws on the
author's empirical research on skilled migration to demonstrate how
sub-Saharan African professionals in English-dominant workplaces in
the UK, USA, Australia, and South Africa resist the neoliberal
communicative expectations and employ alternate practices informed
by critical dispositions. These practices have the potential to
transform neoliberal orientations on material development. The book
labels the latter as informed by a postcolonial language ideology,
to distinguish them from those of neoliberalism. While neoliberal
agencies approach languages as being instrumental for profit-making
purposes, the author's informants focus on the synergy between
languages to generate new meanings and norms, which are
strategically negotiated in pursuit of ethical interests, inclusive
interactions, and holistic ecological development. As such, the
book clearly illustrates that the way critical scholars and
multilinguals relate to language diversity is different from the
way neoliberal policies and agencies use multilingualism for their
own purposes.
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