[Edling] Book: The Material Culture of Multilingualism

Francis Hult francis.hult at englund.lu.se
Wed Jul 11 12:21:30 UTC 2018


Title: The Material Culture of Multilingualism

Editors: Larissa Aronin, Michael Hornsby, Grażyna Kiliańska-Przybyło

ISBN: 978-3-319-91103-8
Hardback Price: $139.99

*Softcover Price: $24.99

URL: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319911038



About the book:

This volume provides a unique interface between the material and linguistic aspects of communication, education and language use, and cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, drawing on fields as varied as applied linguistics, ethnology, sociology, history and philosophy.


Taking texts, images and objects as their starting points, the authors discuss how cultural context is envisioned in particular materialities and in a variety of contexts and localities. The volume, divided into three sections, aims to deal with material culture not only in the daily language practices of the past and the present, but also language teaching in a number of settings.  The main thrust of the volume, then, is the exposure of natural ties between language, cognition, identity and the material world.

Aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in fields as varied as education, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, semiotics and other related disciplines, this volume documents and analyses a wide range of case studies. It provides a unique take on multilingualism and expands our understanding of how materialities permit us new and unexpected insights into multilingual practices.



Table of contents:


-Preface by Jasone Cenoz.


- Introduction: The Realm of the Material Culture of Multilingualism, Larissa Aronin and Michael Hornsby.


- Part I: Theoretical Issues of the Material Culture of Multilingualism.


- Theoretical Underpinnings of the Material Culture of Multilingualism, Larissa Aronin.


- The World of Things. Material Culture in Language Teaching and Teacher Education, Hanna Komorowska.


- Part II: Cultural, Linguistic and Educational Awareness of Material Culture.- Multilingual Students' Representations of Material Culture, Teresa  Maria Włosowicz.


- "Big" Culture in Small Packages: on Material Culture for Developing Cultural Awareness, Danuta Gabryś- Barker.


- Multilingual Awareness in Tyrolean Material Culture, Ulrike Jessner, Dominik Unterthiner, Manon Megens, Stephanie Baur.


- Part III: Contexts, Populations and Languages.


- Multilingual Aspects of old L'viv: Postcards and Their Contemporary Reception,  Anna Niżegorodcew.


- The Localized Use of Language in Material Culture: A Case Study, a Kibbutz, Judith Yoel.


- The Material Culture of Multilingualism in a Minoritized Setting:  the Maintenance  and Transformation of Lemko Language and Culture, Michael Hornsby.


- Commodification of a Forsaken Script: the Glagolitic Script in Contemporary Croatian Material Culture, Antonio Oštarić.


- Subject Index




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