Globalising multilingualism research: small-scale multilingual practice before, beneath and in resistance to the nation-state
Postcolonial countries in the Global South are characterised by a "double divide" (Mohanty 2010) or "layered and stratified multilingualism" (Lafkoui 2024): official language, often of colonial origin, regional languages of wider communication and small local languages exist in nested diglossic relationships. But this hierarchical view of roles and domains for languages does not tell the full story, nor do small-scale multilingual practices can be entirely subsumed under the image of minoritised language. In this talk, I explore small-scale multilingualism in a number of global settings, focusing on ideas of language, identity and language use emerging from them so that they can enrich the conceptual library of multilingualism research.
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Datum: Donnerstag, 6. März, 17:00 - 18:00 h
Ort: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Merangasse 70, 8010 Graz, SR 33.3.211
Teilnahme auch über Zoom möglich: https://uni-graz.zoom.us/s/62795016560
Meeting-ID: 627 9501 6560
Kenncode: 475142