Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts

The volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable. The chapters address various ways in which individuals may be positioned or position themselves in a variety of contexts. In asking questions about social justice, about who has access to symbolic and material resources, about who is 'in' and who is 'out', the authors take account not only of localised linguistic behaviours, attitudes and beliefs; they also locate them in wider social contexts which include class, race, ethnicity, generation, gender and sexuality. The volume makes a significant contribution to the development of theory in understanding identity negotiation and social justice in multilingual contexts.

Preface Contributors Aneta Pavlenko and Adrian Blackledge: Introduction: New Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts 1 Aneta Pavlenko: 'The Making of an American': Negotiation of Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 2 Adrian Blackledge: Constructions of Identity in Political Discourse in Multilingual Britain 3 Meredith Doran: Negotiating Between Bourge and Racaille: Verlan as Youth Identity Practice in Suburban Paris 4 Melissa James and Bencie Woll: Black Deaf or Deaf Black? Being Black and Deaf in Britain 5 Jean Mills: Mothers and Mother Tongue: Perspectives on Self-construction by Mothers of Pakistani Heritage 6 Frances Giampapa: The Politics of Identity, Representation, and the Discourses of Self-identification: Negotiating the Periphery and the Center 7 Celeste Kinginger: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Foreign Language Learning and Identity Reconstruction 8 Benedicta Egbo: Intersections of Literacy and Construction of Social Identities 9 Suresh Canagarajah: Multilingual Writers and the Struggle for Voice in Academic Discourse 10 Jennifer Miller: Identity and Language Use: The Politics of Speaking ESL in Schools 11 Yasuko Kanno: Sending Mixed Messages: Language Minority Education at a Japanese Public Elementary School Index