
Researching Multilingualism: Critical and ethnographic perspectives Edited By Marilyn Martin-Jones, Deirdre Martin
Book Description
Researching Multilingualism expertly engages with a new sociolinguistics of multilingualism, taking account of this new communicative order and the particular cultural and social conditions of our times. Seventeen chapters are divided into four sections covering: researching discourses, policies and practices; contemporary mobilities; Researching multilingual communication on-line; Multilingualism in research practice. This state-of-the-art overview of research methodologies in multilingual settings will be of interest for all students and researchers working in the area of multilingualism within Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Education and Communication Studies.
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Marilyn Martin-Jones and Deirdre Martin
Researching trajectories, multilingual repertoires and identities
Chapter 2: Narrative analysis in migrant and transnational contexts
Mike Baynham and Anna De Fina
Chapter 3: Biographical approaches to research in multilingual settings: Exploring linguistic repertoires.
Brigitta Busch
Chapter 4: The risks and gains of a single case study
Kamran Khan
Chapter 5: Researching student mobility in multilingual Switzerland: Reflections on multi-sited ethnography
Martina Zimmermann
Researching discourses, policies and practices on different scales
Chapter 6: Nexus analysis as scalar ethnography for educational linguistics
Francis Hult
Chapter 7: Critical ethnography of language policy: A semi-confessional tale
David Cassels Johnson
Chapter 8: Investigating visual practices in educational settings: schoolscapes, language
ideologies and organizational cultures
Petteri Laihonen and Tamás Péter Szabó
Researching multilingual communication and multisemioticity online
Chapter 9: Methodologies for researching multilingual online texts and practices
David Barton and Carmen Lee
Chapter 10: Investigating multilingualism and multi-semioticity as communicative resources in social media
Sirpa Leppänen & Samu Kytölä
Chapter 11: Virtual ethnographic approaches to researching multilingualism online.
Helen Kelly-Holmes and Aoife Lenihan
Multilingualism in research practice: voices, identities and researcher reflexivity
Chapter 12: Reflexive ethnographic research practice in multilingual contexts
Marilyn Martin-Jones, Jane Andrews and Deirdre Martin
Chapter 13: Reflexivity in team ethnography: Using researcher vignettes
Angela Creese, Jaspreet Kaur Takhi and Adrian Blackledge
Chapter 14: Researching children's literacy practices and identities in faith settings: multimodal text-making and talk about text as resources for knowledge-building
Vally Lytra, Eve Gregory and Arani Ilankuberan
Chapter 15: Multilingual dynamics in the research process: transcribing and interpreting interactional data
Sabina Vakser
Ethnographic monitoring and critical collaborative analysis for social change
Chapter 16: Countering unequal multilingualism through ethnographic monitoring
Haley De Korne and Nancy H. Hornberger
Chapter 17: Ethnographic monitoring and the study of complexity
Jef Van der Aa & Jan Blommaert
