Researching Multilingualism expertly engages with a new sociolinguistics of multilingualism, taking account of this new communicative order and the particular cultural and social conditions of our times. Seventeen chapters are divided into four sections covering: researching discourses, policies and practices; contemporary mobilities; Researching multilingual communication on-line; Multilingualism in research practice. This state-of-the-art overview of research methodologies in multilingual settings will be of interest for all students and researchers working in the area of multilingualism within Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Education and Communication Studies.
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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Marilyn Martin-Jones and Deirdre Martin
Researching trajectories, multilingual repertoires and identities
Chapter 2: Narrative analysis in migrant and transnational contexts
Mike Baynham and Anna De Fina
Chapter 3: Biographical approaches to research in multilingual settings: Exploring linguistic repertoires.
Brigitta Busch
Chapter 4: The risks and gains of a single case study
Kamran Khan
Chapter 5: Researching student mobility in multilingual Switzerland: Reflections on multi-sited ethnography
Martina Zimmermann
Researching discourses, policies and practices on different scales
Chapter 6: Nexus analysis as scalar ethnography for educational linguistics
Francis Hult
Chapter 7: Critical ethnography of language policy: A semi-confessional lz
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