Entangled Discourses: South-North Orders of Visibility

ISBN-13: 9780367430313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

Caroline Kerfoot; Kenneth Hyltenstam

Opis

This book uniquely explores the shifting structures of power and unexpected points of intersection – entanglements – at the nexus of North and South as a lens through which to examine the impact of global and local circuits of people, practices and ideas on linguistic, cultural and knowledge systems.

O autorze

Caroline Kerfoot is Professor at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University. She was previously Head of Language Education, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her current research focuses on multilingualism, identities, and epistemic access in educational sites characterised by high levels of diversity and flux. Recent publications appear in Applied Linguistics, Linguistics & Education, International Multilingual Research Journal, and Language & Education.

Kenneth Hyltenstam is Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University. He has been Professor of Bilingualism since 1992 and prior to that Associate Professor of Bilingualism since 1981. His main research area is second language acquisition, but his research also covers several other topics (bilingualism and dementia, language maintenance, language policy, and language and education). He has published six volumes internationally and several books in Swedish. Recent research appears in Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Language and Speech, Language Learning, Sociolinguistica, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.