Exploring (Im)mobilities

Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries

AvAnna De Fina,Gerardo Mazzaferro

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del 23 i serien Encounters

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Beskrivning

The impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic research is well-established, yet very few studies deal with issues related to immobility. The chapters in this book focus on the sociolinguistic investigation of the dynamics between mobility and immobility as experienced by migrants, asylum seekers and members of minority or exploited groups. Central to the book is an exploration of how mobilities are affected by and in turn affect power relations and of the kinds of resources used by people to deal with (im)mobility processes. The book brings to light a new critical sociolinguistic imagination that is responsive to 21st century processes of (im)mobilities as socially, discursively and emotionally constructed and negotiated.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-11-23
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:514 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Encounters
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Multilingual Matters
ISBN:9781788925297

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Anna De Fina is Professor of Language and Linguistics and Chair of the Italian Department, Georgetown University, USA. She has published widely in sociolinguistics and narrative analysis. Her most recent publication is The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies, edited with Alexandra Georgakopoulou (2020, Cambridge University Press).Gerardo Mazzaferro is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of Translanguaging as Everyday Practice (2018, Springer).

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This is an extremely timely book that reminds us of some of the neglected aspects of the new mobility paradigm in sociolinguistic research. It covers research contexts that have not been previously explored. Its conceptual and methodological innovations ensure the book’s lasting impact on theory, research design, policy and practice.

Innehållsförteckning

ContributorsAcknowledgementsAnna De Fina and Gerardo Mazzaferro: IntroductionPart 1: The (Im)mobilization of Language Resources, Repertoires and PracticesChapter 1. Mari D’Agostino: Multilingual Young African Migrants: Between Mobility and ImmobilityChapter 2. Necia Stanford Billinghurst: Sociolinguistic (Im)mobilities in Spaces of MigrationChapter 3. Katrijn Maryns and Stef Slembrouck: Categorization and the Use of English as an (Im)mobile Resource in Service Encounters with Migrants in FlandersPart 2: (Im)mobilities, Technologies and ControlChapter 4. Maria Sabaté-Dalmau: Controlling Migrants’ (Im)mobilities through Telecommunications: Technopolitical Governance in Telephony Advertising DiscourseChapter 5. Massimiliano Spotti: On Being Enregistered into the Matrix of Online Knowledge: An Ethnographic Exploration of an Internet-based Dismissal in an Asylum-seeking ProcedureChapter 6. Marco Jacquemet: From Language to Politics: Communication, Power, and Migration in the Central MediterraneanPart 3: Spaces of (Im)mobility and ResistanceChapter 7. Anna De Fina and Gerardo Mazzaferro: Everyday Communicative Practices and Repertoires in Contexts of Involuntary and Enforced ImmobilityChapter 8. Ana Deumert: Beachspaces: Racism and Settler-Colonial (Im)mobilities at the ShorelineChapter 9. Birgul Yilmaz: Language and Humanitarian Governmentality in a Refugee Camp on Lesvos IslandPart 4: (Im)mobilities, Subjectivity, Identity and AgencyChapter 10. Mike Baynham, Bahiru Shewaye and Gomes O. Kayode: Estrangement and Home in Queer Asylum StoriesChapter 11. Roberta Piazza: The Power of (Im)mobility: Irish Travellers’ Agentive Identities in Transit and PermanencyChapter 12. Jan Blommaert: Postscript: Immobilities NormalizedIndex