Researching Multilingualism

Martin-Jones, Marilyn; Martin, Deirdre

"For researchers and graduate students interested in pursuing studies related to multilingualism, this is a highly informative work that provides theoretical and methodological forays into many aspects of critical and ethnographic sociolinguistic research. It indeed takes up Blommaert’s call (2010) for innovative conceptual and methodological approaches that can capture the highly complex, mobile and technologised communications in the 21st century."- Ruth Harnam, The University of Georgia, John Benjamins Publishing Company

• List of figures and tablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1: IntroductionMarilyn Martin-Jones and Deirdre MartinResearching trajectories, multilingual repertoires and identitiesChapter 2: Narrative analysis in migrant and transnational contextsMike Baynham and Anna De FinaChapter 3: Biographical approaches to research in multilingual settings: Exploring linguistic repertoires.Brigitta BuschChapter 4: The risks and gains of a single case studyKamran KhanChapter 5: Researching student mobility in multilingual Switzerland: Reflections on multi-sited ethnography Martina ZimmermannResearching discourses, policies and practices on different scales Chapter 6: Nexus analysis as scalar ethnography for educational linguisticsFrancis HultChapter 7: Critical ethnography of language policy: A semi-confessional taleDavid Cassels JohnsonChapter 8: Investigating visual practices in educational settings: schoolscapes, languageideologies and organizational culturesPetteri Laihonen and Tamás Péter SzabóResearching multilingual communication and multisemioticity onlineChapter 9: Methodologies for researching multilingual online texts and practicesDavid Barton and Carmen LeeChapter 10: Investigating multilingualism and multi-semioticity as communicative resources in social mediaSirpa Leppänen & Samu KytöläChapter 11: Virtual ethnographic approaches to researching multilingualism online. Helen Kelly-Holmes and Aoife LenihanMultilingualism in research practice: voices, identities and researcher reflexivityChapter 12: Reflexive ethnographic research practice in multilingual contexts Marilyn Martin-Jones, Jane Andrews and Deirdre MartinChapter 13: Reflexivity in team ethnography: Using researcher vignettesAngela Creese, Jaspreet Kaur Takhi and Adrian BlackledgeChapter 14: Researching children's literacy practices and identities in faith settings: multimodal text-making and talk about text as resources for knowledge-buildingVally Lytra, Eve Gregory and Arani IlankuberanChapter 15: Multilingual dynamics in the research process: transcribing and interpreting interactional dataSabina VakserEthnographic monitoring and critical collaborative analysis for social changeChapter 16: Countering unequal multilingualism through ethnographic monitoringHaley De Korne and Nancy H. HornbergerChapter 17: Ethnographic monitoring and the study of complexityJef Van der Aa & Jan Blommaert