Multilingualism and the periphery

by Kelly-Holmes, Helen Pietikäinen, Sari

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Full title :Multilingualism and the periphery / edited by Sari Pietikäinen and Helen Kelly-Holmes.

Summary

This volume examines the complex processes and practices of multilingualism in a wide range of economically, culturally, politically, and geographically peripheral sites and spaces in different locations. Using approaches that draw on sociolinguistics, ethnography, and discourse studies, leading scholars investigate different peripheral minority language sites, ranging from Arctic territories to a busy airport in Wales. The colume brings together these different contects and approaches in order to explore what possible commonalities and differences might arise from processes of peripheralizing and centralizing in multilingual minority language sites. The volume aims to open up new ways of thinking and theorizing about multilingualism, about centres and peripheries, and challenges existing notions of straightforward power relations (e.g. majority-minority; center-periphery etc.). All of the contributors question assumptions about peripheries as less fortunate counterparts to prosperous centres, and suggest instead that peripheries are diverse, multilingual spaces, constructed by but, crucially, constitutive to centres. -- Book Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:c2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:c2013.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (231 p. :) : ill., maps.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199945177, 0199945179, 9780199945191, 0199945195
oclc:on1340079930
LC Classification:P115.45
Dewey Decimal:306.44/6

Multiligualism and the periphery / Sari Pietikäinen and Helen Kelly-Holmes -- Repositioning the multilingual periphery: class, language, and transnational markets in Francophone Canada / Monica Heller -- What makes art Acadian? / Mierille McLaughlin -- Tourism and gender in linguistic minority communities / Joan Pujolar -- Heteroglossic authenticity in Sámi heritage context / Sari Pietikäinen -- Linguistic creativity in Corsican tourist context / Alexandra Jaffe and Cedric Oliva -- 'Translation in progress': centralizing and peripheralizing tensions in the practices of commercial actors in minority language sites / Helen Kelly-Holmes -- Welsh tea: the centring and decentring of Wales and the Welsh language / Nikolas Coupland -- The (de- )centring spaces of airports: framing mobility and multilingualism / Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow -- The career of a diacritical sign: language in spatial representations and representational spaces / Brigitta Busch -- The peripheral multilingualism lens: a fruitful and challenging way forward? / Helen Kelly-Holmes and Sari Pietikäinen.

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