Aneta Pavlenko is Associate Professor of TESOL in the College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, US. Her research examines the relationship between language and cognition, emotions, and identity in bi- and multilingual individuals. She is a co-editor of two other volumes.Adrian Blackledge is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on language ideologies, relations of power, and the role of public discourse in diverse societies.

• Preface Contributors Aneta Pavlenko and Adrian Blackledge: Introduction: New Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts1 Aneta Pavlenko: ‘The Making of an American’: Negotiation of Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century2 Adrian Blackledge: Constructions of Identity in Political Discourse in Multilingual Britain3 Meredith Doran: Negotiating Between Bourge and Racaille: Verlan as Youth Identity Practice in Suburban Paris4 Melissa James and Bencie Woll: Black Deaf or Deaf Black? Being Black and Deaf in Britain5 Jean Mills: Mothers and Mother Tongue: Perspectives on Self-construction by Mothers of Pakistani Heritage6 Frances Giampapa: The Politics of Identity, Representation, and the Discourses of Self-identification: Negotiating the Periphery and the Center7 Celeste Kinginger: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Foreign Language Learning and Identity Reconstruction8 Benedicta Egbo: Intersections of Literacy and Construction of Social Identities9 Suresh Canagarajah: Multilingual Writers and the Struggle for Voice in Academic Discourse10 Jennifer Miller: Identity and Language Use: The Politics of Speaking ESL in Schools11 Yasuko Kanno: Sending Mixed Messages: Language Minority Education at a Japanese Public Elementary SchoolIndex