The construction of multilinguals as Others
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 prac...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1770762026-06-21T06:38:15Z The construction of multilinguals as Others Alexiadou, Artemis Scarvaglieri, Claudio Schroeder, Christoph Wiese, Heike Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics 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. 2026-05-30T05:35:41Z 2026-05-30T05:35:41Z 2026-05-29T11:24:43Z 2025 book ONIX_20260529T115621_9783961105281_36 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113817 9783961105281 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177076 eng Contact and Multilingualism Language Science Press 2025 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113817/1/9783961105281.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113817/1/9783961105281.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113817/1/9783961105281.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113817/1/9783961105281.pdf Language Science Press Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.15655344 10.5281/zenodo.15655344 ed03121b-b998-4b50-8d58-1d0745565558 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 31e0fce7-922c-48ff-82ee-172b3ba34848 9783961105281 Language Science Press 2024-2026 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press Berlin [...] open access |
| spellingShingle | Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics The construction of multilinguals as Others |
| title | The construction of multilinguals as Others |
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