Visualising Multilingual Lives By Paula Kalaja 9781788922609

Category

Bilingualism & multilingualism

Store

Wordery

Brand

Multilingual matters

Visualising Multilingual Lives : Multilingual Matters : 9781788922609 : 08 Mar 2019 : Shortlisted for the 2020 BAAL Book Prize This book brings together empirical studies from around the world to help readers gain a better understanding of multilinguals, ranging from small children to elderly people, and their lives. The chapters focus on the multilingual subjects' identities and the ways in which they are discursively and/or visually constructed, and are split into sections looking specifically at the multilingual self, the multilingual learner and multilingual teacher education. The studies draw on rich visual data, which is analysed for content and/or form and often complemented with other types of data, to investigate how multilinguals make sense of their use and knowledge of more than one language in their specific context. The topic of multilingualism is addressed as subjectively experienced and the book unites the current multilingual, narrative and visual turns in Applied Lang

119.95 GBP