| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) |
| Contents |
Overlapping identities, symbolic investments, and new discursive spaces -- Exploring interconnections between globalization, multilingualism, multiculturalism, and identity -- An "ethnographie à géométrie variable": theoretical and methodological considerations -- Voices of youth and symbolic investments: a unique case study -- Appropriating and negotiating symbolic investments: strategies across, between, and within multiple spaces |
| Summary |
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 in |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Canada
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Second language acquisition.
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Language and culture -- Canada -- Globalization
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Bilingualism -- Canada
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Linguistic minorities -- Education -- Canada
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EDUCATION -- Bilingual Education.
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Bilingualism
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching
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Linguistic minorities -- Education
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Second language acquisition
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009047511 |
| ISBN |
9781441178756 |
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1441178759 |
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9781441182517 |
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1441182519 |
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1441168249 |
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9781441168245 |
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9786612590740 |
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6612590742 |
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