Shapeshifters and shamans: Topologies of multilingualism

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dc.contributor.authorBock, Zannie
dc.contributor.authorStroud, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-01T11:46:40Z
dc.date.available2021-06-01T11:46:40Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis paper is a radical break with a view of multilingualism as an arrangement or hierarchy of different languages which produces more or less visibility for these named varieties. Rather, it takes as its starting point a view of multilingualism as situated within a matrix of social relations, constituted in different times and spaces, between people carrying different histories, attitudes, and feelings. In an attempt to find new ways of representing these social rationalities, we argue for a topological view of multilingualism. This perspective draws attention to the ways in which the diverse facets of multilingualism interconnect and relate in different time-spaces. Our data draw on four artistic visualisations of multilingualism produced by students on a course which sought to explore new ways of re-imagining multilingualism. The posters and artefacts produced on this course stimulated our view of multilingualism as a networked, fluid and mobile typology, or as an n-dimensional form which shifts and changes as it rotates through time and space. We then link this conception to our discussion of Linguistic Citizenship as an n-dimensional topological phenomenon.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBock, Z. and Stroud, C. 2021. Shapeshifters and shamans: Topologies of multilingualism. Working Papers Urban Language & Literacies. Paper 282en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.academia.edu/49083403/WP282_Bock_and_Stroud_2021_Shapeshifters_and_shamans_Topologies_of_multilingualism
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/6237
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKing's Collegeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Papers Urban Language & Literacies;
dc.subjectMultilingualismen_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectLiteracyen_US
dc.subjectSociolinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectApplied linguisticsen_US
dc.subjectLinguistic diversityen_US
dc.titleShapeshifters and shamans: Topologies of multilingualismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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