Description
| Product ID: | 9781788925280 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Encounters |
| Title: | Exploring (Im)mobilities |
| Subtitle: | Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries |
| Authors: | Author: Anna De Fina, Gerardo Mazzaferro |
| Page Count: | 296 |
| Subjects: | Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Migration, immigration and emigration, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Migration, immigration & emigration |
| Description: | The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns. The impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic research is well-established, yet very few studies deal with issues related to immobility. The chapters in this book focus on the sociolinguistic investigation of the dynamics between mobility and immobility as experienced by migrants, asylum seekers and members of minority or exploited groups. Central to the book is an exploration of how mobilities are affected by and in turn affect power relations and of the kinds of resources used by people to deal with (im)mobility processes. The book brings to light a new critical sociolinguistic imagination that is responsive to 21st century processes of (im)mobilities as socially, discursively and emotionally constructed and negotiated. |
| Imprint Name: | Multilingual Matters |
| Publisher Name: | Multilingual Matters |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-11-23 |
