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"The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of the field of multilingualism for a global readership, and an overview of the research which situates multilingualism in its social, cultural and political context. The handbook includes an introduction and five sections with thirty two chapters by leading international contributors.

The introduction charts the changing landscape of social and ethnographic research on multilingualism (theory, methods and research sites) and it foregrounds key contemporary debates. Chapters are structured around sub-headings such as: early developments, key issues related to theory and method, new research directions.

This handbook offers an authoritative guide to shifts over time in thinking about multilingualism as well as providing an overview of the range of contemporary themes, debates and research sites. The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism is the ideal resource for postgraduate students of multilingualism, as well as those studying education and anthropology." (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of illustrations

Aknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction: a sociolinguistics of multilingualism for our times / Marilyn Martin-Jones, Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese

PART I DISCOURSES ABOUT MULTILINGUALISM, ACROSS POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS

1. Indigenous contexts / Donna Patrick

2. Lessons from pre-colonial multilingualism / Suresh Canagarajah and Indika Liyanage

3. Rethinking discourses around the 'English-cosmopolitan' correlation: scenes from formal and informal multilingual educational contexts / Vaidehi Ramanathan Gonzalez

4. Multilingual citizenship and minority languages / Alexandra Jaffe

5. Sign language and the politics of deafness / Bencie Woll and Robert Adam

6. Discourses about linguistic diversity / Melanie Cooke and James Simpson

7. Language rights: promoting civic multilingualism / Stephen May

PART II MULTILINGUALISM AND EDUCATION

8. Indigenous education: local and global perspectives / Teresa L. McCarty and Sheilagh E. Nicholas

9. Second language acquisition / Lourdes Ortega

10. Language teaching methodology / Scott Thornbury

11. Technology and language learning / Richard Kern

12. Language teacher education / Simon Borg

13. Bilingual education / Ingrid Gogolin

14. English for academic purposes / Nigel Harwood and Bojana Petric

PART III MULTILINGUALISM IN OTHER INSTITUTIONAL SITES

15. Multilingualism in the workplace / Roger Hewitt

16. Multilingualism and social exclusion / Ingrid Piller

17. Multilingualism in legal settings / Katrijn Maryns

18. Multilingualism and public service access: interpreting in spoken and signed languages / Christine W.L. Wilson, Graham H. Turner and Isabelle Perez

19. Multilingualism and the media / Helen Kelly-Holmes

20. Multilingualism and religion / Tope Omoniyi

PART IV MULTILINGUALISM IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE

21. Multilingualism and the new economy / Alexandre Duchêne and Monica Heller

22. Multilingualism on the Internet / Sirpa Leppanen and Saija Peuronen

23. Multilingualism and popular culture / Mela Sarkar and Browen Low

24. Multilingualism and gender / Kimie Takahashi

PART V SITUATED PRACTICES, LIVED REALITIES

25. Disinventing multilingualism: from monological multilingualism to multilingua francas / Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook

26. Multilingualism and emotions / Aneta Pavlenko

27. Codeswitching / Angel Y.M. Lin and David C.S. Li

28. Crossing / Ben Rampton and Costadina Charalambous

29. Heteroglossia / Benjamin Bailey

30. Multilingual literacies / Doris S. Warriner

31. Multilingualism and multimodality / Vally Lytra

32. Linguistic landscapes and multilingualism / Elana Shohamy

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