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SUMMARY:Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia and social diversity - Profe
 ssor Adrian Blackledge\, MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism\, U
 niversity of Birmingham
DTSTART:20121022T160000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:A focus on multilingualism as a feature of social diversity im
 plies an understanding of ‘languages’ in use alongside each other. Thi
 s understanding in turn implies that ‘languages’ exist as bounded\, un
 itary phenomena. However\, recent scholarship argues that whilst the idea 
 of ‘a language’ may be important as a social construct\, it is not sui
 ted as an analytical lens through which to view language practices. This p
 aper suggests an alternative\, if not unfamiliar\, analytic gaze: one that
  explicitly joins the linguistic utterance in the present with its histori
 cal context\; one that  identifies the tensions and conflicts in the spoke
 n word\; and one that acknowledges the multivoiced nature of the word as s
 peakers negotiate the social world. Such an analytic gaze attends not only
  to ‘languages’\, but to social diversity in access to economic and sy
 mbolic resources\, gender\, sexuality\, disability\, and ethnicity. The pa
 per presents the voices of young people in an English city\, analysed thro
 ugh the lens of heteroglossia. \n\nBiog note: Adrian Blackledge is Profess
 or of Bilingualism in the School of Education\, and Director of the MOSAIC
  Centre for Research on Multilingualism\, University of Birmingham. His re
 search interests include the politics of multilingualism\, linguistic ethn
 ography\, education of linguistic minority students\, negotiation of ident
 ities in multilingual contexts\, and language testing\, citizenship\, and 
 immigration. His publications include The Routledge Handbook of Multilingu
 alism (2012\,with Marilyn Martin-Jones and Angela Creese\, Routledge)\, Mu
 ltilingualism\, A Critical Perspective (with Angela Creese\, 2010\, Contin
 uum)\, Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World (2005\, John Benjamins)
 \, Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts (with Aneta Pavlenko
 \, 2004\, Multilingual Matters)\, Multilingualism\, Second Language Learni
 ng and Gender (2001\, Mouton de Gruyter\, with Aneta Pavlenko\, Ingrid Pil
 ler\, and Marya Teutsch-Dwyer) and Literacy\, Power\, and Social Justice (
 2001\, Trentham Books).
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