Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

Kristine Horner is a sociolinguist at the University of Sheffield, UK, whose research focuses on the politics of language, language ideologies and multilingualism. She is the co-author (with Jean-Jacques Weber) of Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach (2017, Routledge).Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain is a sociolinguist at the University of Alberta, Canada, with a research focus on everyday language in use, but always with an eye toward how this use relates to broader social phenomena such as identity, ideology, and globalisation. She is the author of Trans-National English in Social Media Communities (2017, Palgrave MacMillan).

The politics of belonging: Who belongs? Who does not? Who decides? This much-needed book invites us to explore such questions by looking into the complex intersectionality of space, language, identity and power. Insightful contributions are brought together to provide rigorous and lucid sociolinguistic analyses of processes of mobility and forms of immobility in rich and varied sites.

• Introduction: Kristine Horner and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain: Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of BelongingSection I: Contested Spaces: Language, Borders and (Un)belongingChapter 2. James Hawkey: The Border as a Site of Sociolinguistic Inquiry: Findings from Northern Catalonia Chapter 3. Mark Payne: Ethnolinguistic Landscaping in Sheffield: The invisible Repertoires of the Slovak Roma Chapter 4. Yolandi Ribbens-Klein: The Embodiment of Place: Boorlinge, Inkommers and the Struggle to Belong Chapter 5. Mike Baynham: Contested Spaces: A Commentary Section II: Trajectories and Heritage: Language, Authenticities and (Un)belongingChapter 6. Antonia Rubino: Authenticity, Agency and Mobility in the Discourse of Italian Migrants in AustraliaChapter 7. Katharina König: Speaking with or without an Accent: Language Ideologies and the ‘Problem’ of Linguistic Super-MobilityChapter 8. Jessica Bradley and James Simpson: Negative Translanguaging Space: Mobility and Immobility in Inner-City LeedsChapter 9. Samantha Litty and Joseph Salmons: Trajectories and Heritage: A CommentarySection III: Mobilities and Struggle: Language, Hierarchies, and (Un)belonging Chapter 10. Sarah Muller, Clea Schmidt and Jean-Jacques Weber: Perceived Legitimacy and Translanguaging: Exploring the Interconnectedness of Pedagogy and PolicyChapter 11. Mi Yung Park: Gender Ideologies and Korean Language Learning: Experiences of Female Marriage-Migrants in Rural South KoreaChapter 12. Bernardino Tavares and Kasper Juffermans: Language and (Im)mobility as a Struggle: Cape Verdean Trajectories into LuxembourgChapter 13. Ana Deumert: Mobilities and Struggle: A Commentary