Multilingua Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2024-0100

Emma Brooks

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Deaf migrants in Sweden: exploring linguistic and bureaucratic challenges through the lens of Crip Theory and Crip Linguistics 瑞典的聋人移民：从瘸子理论和瘸子语言学的角度探讨语言和官僚主义挑战

Multilingua Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2023-0203

Nora Duggan, Ingela Holmström

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Keeping the pitch on track: spatiotemporal challenges in ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline 保持轨道不变：布宜诺斯艾利斯火车上流动售货机的时空挑战

Multilingua Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2024-0011

Rosina Márquez Reiter, Elizabeth Manrique

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What is a dialect? What is a standard?: shifting indexicality and persistent ideological norms 什么是方言？什么是标准？

Multilingua Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2024-0034

Judit Kroo

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The slowness of language, the speed of capital: conflicting temporalities of the “green transition” in the Swedish north 语言之慢，资本之快：瑞典北部 "绿色转型 "的时间冲突

Multilingua Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2024-0076

Andreas Nuottaniemi

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The economics of Japanese: investigating the demand for Japanese language skills in the Pearl River Delta labor market 日语经济学：调查珠江三角洲劳动力市场对日语技能的需求

Multilingua Pub Date : 2024-06-17 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2023-0073

Chao Cai, Jinying Huang

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Language teacher subjectivities in Japan’s diaspora strategies: Teaching my language as someone’s heritage language 日本侨民战略中的语言教师主体性：把我的语言当作别人的遗产语言来教

Multilingua Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2015-8011

Kyoko Motobayashi

{"title":"Language teacher subjectivities in Japan’s diaspora strategies: Teaching my language as someone’s heritage language","authors":"Kyoko Motobayashi","doi":"10.1515/multi-2015-8011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2015-8011","url":null,"abstract":"This study demonstrates the ways in which discourses in a state-sponsored volunteer program incited transformations of individual subjectivities, focusing on a group of Japanese language teacher volunteers training in Japan to become teachers of Japanese as a heritage language for the country’s diaspora (Nikkei) population in South America. As teachers of heritage Japanese at Japanese language schools in these Nikkei communities, their work was central to Japan’s diaspora strategies, which reframe the Nikkei population as Japan’s “diplomatic assets” connected to Japan through their Nikkei identity. Focusing on these language teachers as important actors in Japan’s diaspora strategies, this study illustrates how their encounter with the institutional discourses resulted in the transformations of their subjectivities. Such transformations occurred during the volunteer training sessions hosted by Japan’s international cooperation agency to conceptualize their roles as teachers of Japanese as someone’s heritage language. By illustrating the ways in which these volunteer individuals’ transformations fit within state diaspora strategies, this article underscores the role of state actors in the process of subjectification, which has tended to be overlooked in previous studies of governmentality.","PeriodicalId":501468,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141189231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English "Eish it's getting really interesting"：南非英语中的借用插入语

Multilingua Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2023-0183

F. Unuabonah, Mampoi Irene Mabena

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Ideological framing of sign languages and their users in the South African press 南非新闻界对手语及其使用者的意识形态塑造

Multilingua Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2023-0040

Carmel Carne, Marcelyn Oostendorp, Anne Baker

{"title":"Ideological framing of sign languages and their users in the South African press","authors":"Carmel Carne, Marcelyn Oostendorp, Anne Baker","doi":"10.1515/multi-2023-0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2023-0040","url":null,"abstract":"This exploratory study provides an overview of prominent themes pertaining to portrayals of sign languages (SLs) and Deaf people in the South African press (2011–2019), as well as an analysis of a subset of articles to illustrate the discursive constructions of each of the prominent ideological framings. The findings of the paper suggest that many ways of representing South African Sign Language (SASL) and their users align with international trends. The two most prominent ideological framings are the medical/disability model and the linguistic minority model. Within the medical model, SLs are seen as inferior means of communication used by a disabled minority. Within the linguistic minority framework SLs are regarded as natural, legitimate languages deserving equal status to spoken languages. The paper also identifies an ideological framing that is not predicted by the international literature, coined here as ‘diversity tokenism’. Diversity tokenism is when SL is mentioned only to increase perceived diversity, where diversity is a commodity that holds social capital. This portrayal of SASL seems to be increasing and holds a warning: although SASL users have received official recognition and rights through the recent declaration of SASL as an official language, it might not be the end of the battle to ensure that users of SASL can live out their linguistic citizenship.","PeriodicalId":501468,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140837585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unpacking translanguaging in refusals on Chinese social media: strategies, distribution, and functions 解读中国社交媒体上拒信中的翻译语言：策略、分布和功能

Multilingua Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2023-0071

Yue Ma, Min Li

{"title":"Unpacking translanguaging in refusals on Chinese social media: strategies, distribution, and functions","authors":"Yue Ma, Min Li","doi":"10.1515/multi-2023-0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2023-0071","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Translanguaging has been documented to be frequently adopted in day-to-day online interaction. To date, except for Ren and Guo’s (2022. Translanguaging in self-praise on Chinese social media. Applied Linguistics Review 169. 1–22) pioneering study examining translanguaging practices in online self-praise, there has been scanty focus on how translanguaging is manifested in the realisation of specific speech acts, particularly the face-threatening speech act of refusing. To fill this research gap, the study explores the strategies, distributional patterns, and functions of translanguaging practices in digital refusals through the analysis of naturally occurring data collected on WeChat over five months. The findings indicate that online interlocutors utilized a wide range of translanguaging strategies from multimodal, multilingual, and multi-semiotic resources. Four turn positions are identified in decreasing order of frequency: single turn, turn final, turn medial, and turn initial. Furthermore, translanguaging in refusals denotes interpersonal, expressive, textual, and operational functions, with the first two constituting the majority. Based on these findings, three types of refusals shaped by translanguaging are identified, namely, refusals with translanguaging as a redressive strategy, refusals with translanguaging as a marker of mock impoliteness, and refusals with translanguaging as a facilitator of smooth online communication. The study concludes by highlighting that the nature of the speech act, digital genres and platforms, and the relationship existing between interlocutors contribute to translanguaging practices in online refusals.","PeriodicalId":501468,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua","volume":"86 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140695534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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