Mixing and Unmixing Languages: Romani Multilingualism in Kosovo

ISBN-13: 9780367860578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 166 str.

Amelia Abercrombie

Opis

Mixing and Unmixing Languages uses the politics and practices of language to understand social hierarchies and social change in a post-conflict and post-socialist context. The book focuses on Roma in Prizren, Kosovo, where the author conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork, using language learning as a central method.

O autorze

Amelia Abercrombie has recently worked as a postdoctoral research associate looking at language learning among marginalised migrants in Manchester, UK. She completed a PhD in the department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK, in 2017. Before that she was at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK, completing MRes East European Studies in 2011, and BA Serbian and Croatian Studies in 2008. She has also worked as a support worker for mental health and learning disabilities.