View Content #26799

From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922593

Visualising Multilingual Lives: More Than Words
Edited by Paula Kalaja and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
Published by Multilingual Matters

This book brings together empirical studies from around the world to help readers gain a better understanding of multilinguals, ranging from small children to elderly people, and their lives. The chapters focus on the multilingual subjects’ identities and the ways in which they are discursively and/or visually constructed, and are split into sections looking specifically at the multilingual self, the multilingual learner and multilingual teacher education. The studies draw on rich visual data, which is analyzed for content and/or form and often complemented with other types of data, to investigate how multilinguals make sense of their use and knowledge of more than one language in their specific context. The topic of multilingualism is addressed as subjectively experienced and the book unites the current multilingual, narrative and visual turns in Applied Language Studies. It will be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of language learning and teaching, teacher education and bi/multilingualism, as well as to those interested in using visual methods and narratives as a means of academic research.

Visit the publisher's website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922593