Overview
- Offers insights on applied linguistic research into multilingualism and how this differs from the neoliberal approach
- Draws on empirical research on how sub-Saharan African migrant professionals introduce translingual practices at their workplaces
- Discusses how teachers can cultivate effective intercultural relations and communicative practices
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Linguistics (SBIL)
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About this book
In addressing this issue, the book draws on the author’s empirical research on skilled migration to demonstrate how sub-Saharan African professionals in English-dominant workplaces in the UK, USA, Australia, and South Africa resist the neoliberal communicative expectations and employ alternate practices informed by critical dispositions. These practices have the potential to transform neoliberal orientations on material development. The book labels the latter as informed by a postcolonial language ideology, to distinguish them from those of neoliberalism. While neoliberal agencies approach languages as being instrumental for profit-making purposes, the author’s informants focus on the synergy between languages to generate new meanings and norms, which are strategically negotiated in pursuit of ethical interests, inclusive interactions, and holistic ecological development. As such, the book clearly illustrates that the way critical scholars and multilinguals relate to language diversity is different from the way neoliberal policies and agencies use multilingualism for their own purposes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Translingual Practices and Neoliberal Policies
Book Subtitle: Attitudes and Strategies of African Skilled Migrants in Anglophone Workplaces
Authors: Suresh Canagarajah
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41243-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41242-9Published: 08 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41243-6Published: 28 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-0009
Series E-ISSN: 2197-0017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 66
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Language Policy and Planning, Migration