Reconceptualizing Language Norms in Multilingual Contexts

Reconceptualizing Language Norms in Multilingual Contexts explores how language norms emerge,evolve,and shape communication in diverse and multicultural spaces,challenging traditional assumptions about mono-cultures and mono-languages. It offers insights from emerging and established voices in the field and has implications for language education and policy.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 330 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2023
Publisher: IGI Global

In the face of cultural and linguistic diversity, migration, and constant change, it has become increasingly crucial to enhance our abilities in multilingual environments. Reconceptualizing Language Norms in Multilingual Contexts provides a groundbreaking exploration of language practices and norms in the diverse and dynamic world we inhabit today. It challenges the traditional notion of language norms as stable and stationary, instead embracing multiculturalism and multilingualism as the norm rather than the exception.

Drawing upon a wide range of methodological approaches, this book brings together a collection of position papers, critical reflections, and explorations by emerging and established voices in the field. It delves into how language norms emerge, evolve, and shape communication in both collective and individual contexts of diversity. By reconceptualizing language norms, this book sheds light on real and relevant language practices in multilingual and multicultural spaces, offering insights from the people who inhabit and navigate these contexts.

This book critically expands on existing scholarly literature in intercultural communication, interlanguage pragmatics, second language pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. It challenges the traditional assumptions about mono-cultures and mono-languages, creating space for a diversity of perspectives and arguments. Furthermore, it explores the implications of its findings for language education and language policy, paving the way for a more inclusive and nuanced approach to language in multilingual societies.

While the content of this book revolves around everyday communication, its academic approaches and comprehensive exploration make it a valuable resource for scholars, researchers, language educators, and policymakers alike. By reconceptualizing language norms, we can better understand the complexities of language use in diverse contexts, promote inclusivity, and foster mutual understanding among people from different backgrounds.

Dimension: 279 x 216 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781668487617