36.3147, Books: The Construction of Multilinguals as Others: Alexiadou, Scarvaglieri, Schroeder and Wiese (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 15-Oct-2025
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: The Construction of Multilinguals as Others: Alexiadou, Scarvaglieri, Schroeder and Wiese (eds.) (2025)


Title: The Construction of Multilinguals as Others
Subtitle: Do we practice what we preach?
Series Title: Contact and Multilingualism
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/393

Editor(s): Artemis Alexiadou, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Christoph
Schroeder, Heike Wiese

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Abstract:

Multilingualism is the normal condition for contemporary as well as
historical human societies. However, European nation-state building
has led to a strong “monolingual habitus” that constructs a community
of monolingual speakers as bearers of a nation. This erases or
exoticises multilinguistic practices and excludes multilingual
speakers. The effects of this exclusion are visible in the public
discourse on multilingual speakers, where we find a widespread
“Othering” of multilingual speakers, understood as constructing them
as members of a social and linguistic out-group. Such Othering is not
restricted to public discourse but is also found in our own practice
as professionals working in linguistics and related fields. In the
volume, we take a close look at Othering practices not only in the
public discussion and educational practice, but also in academia, with
a focus on linguistics. We provide critical reflection of common
practices in our own field, and discuss the implications and
challenges of this for our research. Chapters will address conceptual
framing and labelling, methodology, and research bias in a broad
spectrum of approaches. They will discuss the social context of
Othering in linguistics, labelling practises in linguistic
publications and the construction of multilinguals as Others in
linguistic subdisciplines such as heritage language research,
descriptive and documentary linguistics, second language acquisition,
language teaching, and outreach activities.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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