Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World

by SIL International

Overview

Multilingualisms vary. Given such variation, how can those from essentially mono-chromatic, monolingual backgrounds begin to appreciate the colorful multilingual realities of the majority world? This question led to the symposium Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World, May 10–15, 2018, in Penang, Malaysia. This resulting four-part collection of papers:

• focuses on different models for understanding the dynamics of multiples—multiple languages, multiple identities, and the relationship between the two;
• looks at varying social and geographic contexts of multilingualism, including urban, diaspora, refugee, and cross-border settings;
• examines the history and adequacy of the term “heart language” as it has come to be used especially by organizations and practitioners of Bible translation in the West;
• describes a range of multilingual situations in South Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Madagascar, and Africa.

The concluding chapter seeks to build on the contributions of the overall symposium by suggesting a research agenda for furthering our understanding of language and identity in our multilingual, migrating world. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556715013
Publisher:	SIL International
Publication date:	02/20/2023
Series:	Publications in Sociolinguistics , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	346
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

J. Stephen Quakenbush holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics from Georgetown University and is a Fellow of the Pike Center for Integrative Scholarship. He has held various academic and administrative positions in SIL International. He was directly involved in translation and language development work in the Philippines over a thirty-year period and has published on Agutaynen and Austronesian linguistics, language development, and language endangerment.
Gary F. Simons is SIL’s  Chief Research Officer. He is also Director of the Pike Center for Integrative Scholarship and the Executive Editor of Ethnologue. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University and has done fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. He has also done significant work in linguistic computing and is a co-founder of OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community.