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Sam Goodchild; Miriam Weidl – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
In our article, we investigate the complex dynamics of linguistic understandings and mis- or non-understanding within multilingual contexts. Through the lens of sociolinguistic exploration, we navigate the multifaceted landscapes of language use, applying a multi-perspective approach and the triangulation method to explore the depths of linguistic…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Researchers
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Carol A. Ready – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
In my research I examine the linguistic practices of Moroccans in Spain, many of whom speak Moroccan Arabic as well as Modern Standard Arabic, Tamazight, French, English and Spanish at varying levels of proficiency. As part of my research, I conducted a 10-month linguistic ethnography. I was able to rely on my native English and near-native…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Arabic, Language Variation, Immigrants
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Golachowska, Ewa; Ostrówka, Malgorzata – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
This article is based on texts recorded during field studies carried out in Daugavpils in the summer of 2019. It compares the language of two representatives of older-generation intelligentsia and juxtaposes the findings with materials from an unpublished doctoral thesis by Malgorzata Ostrówka "Wspólczesna polszczyzna mówiona na Lotwie"…
Descriptors: Polish, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Dialects
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De Costa, Peter I.; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul; Wee, Lionel – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This introduction builds on De Costa et al.'s (2016], [2019) notion of linguistic entrepreneurship, which is defined as "the act of aligning with the moral imperative to strategically exploit language-related resources for enhancing one's worth in the world" (2016: 696). The four empirical studies and two critical commentaries that…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language Planning, Neoliberalism
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Ganuza, Natalia; Karlander, David; Salö, Linus – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper discusses symbolic violence in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism. It revisits an archived recording of a group discussion between four boys about their chances of having sex with a female researcher. The data is rife with symbolic violence. Most obviously, the conversation enacted a heterosexist form of symbolic violence. This…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Violence, Archives
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Putnam, Michael T.; Lipski, John – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
In this field note we discuss findings from pilot research on a variety of heritage German spoken in the Northeastern Province of Misiones of Argentina. Based on sociolinguistic field interviews with 25 consultants possessing varying degrees of proficiency in the language, we show that this variant of heritage German does in fact occasionally…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Grammar, German, Foreign Countries
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Piller, Ingrid; Zhang, Jie; Li, Jia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
The decolonization of knowledge is increasingly high on the agenda of applied and sociolinguistics. This article contributes to this agenda by examining how peripheral multilingual scholars confront their linguistic and epistemic exclusion from global knowledge production. Based on the product of such a challenge -- a Chinese-centric special issue…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, COVID-19, Pandemics, Periodicals
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Jaspers, Jürgen; Meeuwis, Michael – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This paper addresses the fact that in spite of the descriptive and well-intentioned ambitions of much sociolinguistic-ethnographic research, members of studied groups often continue to interpret such research as a largely vertically organized socio-political activity that communicates a prescriptive social and linguistic normativity the researcher…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Language Research
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Muth, Sebastian; Suryanarayan, Neelakshi – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper aims to demonstrate the implications of health mobility on language practices in the medical tourism industry in India and on the ways, language workers become entrepreneurs. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork that traces the trajectories of three former students of Russian, we highlight their future aspirations as language learners…
Descriptors: Tourism, Health Services, Language Usage, Entrepreneurship
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Bieswanger, Markus – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
In 2005, Klaus P. Schneider published a fascinating article with the title "'No problem, you're welcome, anytime': Responding to thanks in Ireland, England, and the U.S.A." Adopting the then emerging and now established framework of variational pragmatics, Schneider's pioneering paper presents the results of a study on differences…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Pragmatics, English, Task Analysis
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Goethals, Patrick – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
This paper aims to gain insight into (Spanish) tourists' multilingual experiences by analyzing spontaneously written online travel diaries. Using the conceptual framework of Rapport Management Theory (RMT; Spencer-Oatey 2008), I analyze reports on the tourists' mother tongue, local languages, and English as lingua franca in order to examine the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Multilingualism, Spanish, Diaries
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Maitz, Peter – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2011
This study investigates the potentials and limits of sociolinguistic research on language shift. Starting from a position that the ultimate goal of the research must be to create a general theory of language shift of predictive power, the author examines the explanatory potential of current mainstream research methodology now regarded as canonical…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Research Methodology, Social Psychology, Language Skill Attrition
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Cook, Haruko Minegishi – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This paper explores how referent honorifics contribute to identity construction on a Japanese TV shopping channel program. Drawing on Ochs' twostep model of indexicality (1993, 1996) and Agah's proposal (1993) that honorifics are not directly linked to social status but index a "relative position within events of discursive interaction"…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Japanese, Foreign Countries, Television
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Darquennes, Jeroen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2010
This contribution deals with language contact and language conflict in autochthonous language minority settings in the European Union. It rounds up a number of concepts that guide macro-socio-linguistic and macrocontact-linguistic research on language minorities. The description of these concepts results in a list of research desiderata.
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Planning, Language Research, Linguistic Borrowing
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Wilson, James – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2011
This study reports on the linguistic behaviour of 39 university students from Moravia (in the east of the Czech Republic) living at a hall of residence in Prague, Bohemia (an area covering the west/central parts of the Czech Republic). In Bohemia, Moravian dialects and Standard Czech (SC)--an archaic and semi-artificial standard dialect that is…
Descriptors: College Students, Dialects, Linguistic Theory, Foreign Countries
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