TY - BOOK AU - Anthonissen,Christine AU - Busch,Brigitta AU - Choi,Julie AU - Dabić,Mascha AU - De Meulder,Maartje AU - Deumert,Ana AU - Flubacher,Mi-Cha AU - Guzula,Xolisa AU - Kupe,Zolani AU - Kusters,Annelies AU - Mabandla,Nkululeko AU - Mashazi,Simangele AU - McNamara,Tim AU - Oostendorp,Marcelyn AU - Purkarthofer,Judith AU - Raschidy,Mastura AU - Sedlaczek,Andrea AU - Singer,Ruth AU - Sonnleitner,Julia AU - Spitzmüller,Jürgen AU - Zeiter,Anne-Christel TI - Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research: Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches T2 - Researching Multilingually SN - 9781800415737 AV - P115.45 U1 - 306.44/6 23/eng/20220406 PY - 2022///] CY - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit PB - Multilingual Matters KW - Multilingualism KW - Social aspects KW - Bilingualism & multilingualism KW - Research methods: general KW - Sociolinguistics KW - REFERENCE / Research KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Contributors --; Acknowledgements --; Part 1: Introducing Speaking Subjects --; 1 Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research: Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches --; 2 And the Subject Speaks to You: Biographical Narratives as Memories and Stories of the Narratable Self --; 3 Discourse and the Agency of the Subject in Autobiographical Narratives --; 4 Ethnography as a Speaker-centred Approach? Methodological Reflections --; Part 2: Empirical Insights --; Language Portraits as a Starting Ground --; 5 Profiles of Multilingualism: An Analysis of Language Biographies and Linguistic Repertoires of University Students --; 6 Experiencing Multimodal Languaging: The Use of Language Portraits with Deaf and Hearing Multilingual Signers --; 7 Linguistic Biographies and Language Portraits as Tools for Developing Shared Understandings of Multilingualism with an Indigenous Australian Community --; Linguistic Repertoires and Language Learning in Time and Space --; 8 Children’s Use of Their Full Linguistic Repertoire to Establish a Social and Linguistic Third Space for Learning: A Case Study of the Stars of Today Literacy Club --; 9 Belonging: The Interplay of Linguistic Repertoires, Bodies and Space in an Educational Context --; 10 Learning about Multilingual Language Learning Experiences through Language Trajectory Grids --; 11 Using Media Diaries to Study Multilingual Media Repertoires: A Pilot Study with Language Learners in a Rural Community Education Setting --; 12 A Past of Flesh and Blood: Chronotopic Agency and Embodiment in Biographic Narrative --; 13 Freedom is Suffering for a Caged Bird: Biographical Approaches and Psychotraumatology --; 14 Speaking about the Unspeakable: Interpreter-mediated Psychotherapy for Survivors of War and Torture --; Part 3: Unsettling and Extending Biographical Research and Speaker-centred Approaches --; 15 Ilwiimi Zisulungekile: Reflections on Language, Meaning and Communication --; 16 Ideologies of Communication: The Social Link between Actors, Signs and Practices --; 17 Language Issues? On Collecting Language Biographies without Focusing on Language --; 18 A Few Remarks on Working with Auto-Socio-Bio-Ethnography --; Index; restricted access N2 - This book brings together contributions focused on the interplay between language use by individuals and societies and language-related inequalities, as well as opportunities for speakers, and salient moments of multilingual encounters. The chapters demonstrate how biographical research can contribute to an understanding of linguistic diversity UR - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800415737 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800415737 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800415737/original ER -