Multilingualism In Public Spaces: Empowering And Transforming Communities

This volume brings together researchers from across Europe to explore sociolinguistic perspectives on multilingualism, with specific emphasis on identity, diversity, and social cohesion, as they focus explicitly on the potential of this phenomenon to empower individuals, groups, and communities. Understanding 'public space' in broad terms, including domains such as education, online, and the linguistic landscape, this volume explores how multilingualism can empower people from a range of perspectives, including memorialisation, onomastics, direct action, linguistic rights, migration, and educational play--

• | Author: Robert Blackwood, Deirdre A. Dunlevy
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: 12-Aug-21
• | Number of Pages: 268 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1350186597
• | ISBN-13: 9781350186590