Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries (Encounters): 23 - Hardcover

Anna De Fina; Gerardo Mazzaferro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788925297 ISBN 13: 9781788925297

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2021

Synopsis

The impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic research is well-established, yet very few studies deal with issues related to immobility. The chapters in this book focus on the sociolinguistic investigation of the dynamics between mobility and immobility as experienced by migrants, asylum seekers and members of minority or exploited groups. Central to the book is an exploration of how mobilities are affected by and in turn affect power relations and of the kinds of resources used by people to deal with (im)mobility processes. The book brings to light a new critical sociolinguistic imagination that is responsive to 21st century processes of (im)mobilities as socially, discursively and emotionally constructed and negotiated. 

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About the Author

<p>Anna De Fina is Professor of Language and Linguistics and Chair of the Italian Department, Georgetown University, USA. She has published widely in sociolinguistics and narrative analysis.  Her most recent publication is <em>The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies </em>(2020, Cambridge University Press, edited with Alexandra Georgakopoulou).</p><br /><br /><p>Gerardo Mazzaferro is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of <em>Translanguaging as Everyday Practice</em> (2018, Springer).</p>

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788925297
• ISBN 13: 9781788925297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: De Fina Anna, Mazzaferro Gerardo