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ToolsMusolff, Andreas (2019) Hostility towards immigrants’ languages in Britain: A backlash against ‘super-diversity’? Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 40 (3). pp. 257-266. ISSN 0143-4632
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Abstract
Sociolinguists have adopted the concept of ‘super-diversity’ from cultural anthropology to analyse multidimensional changes in ethnolinguistic identities resulting from recent mass migration. Sociolinguistic super-diversity is thus understood as a central aspect of shifts in migration patterns that have increased the complexity of cultural identities beyond traditional, more static ‘multicultural’ diversity, both in Britain and globally. How is the presence of more complex and diverse linguistic identities viewed by the public? This paper explores attitudes towards perceived increased multilingualism and multiculturalism expressed in the BBC’s Have Your Say Internet forum. The majority of postings blame immigrants for communication problems with the British ‘home’ community and allege their unwillingness to learn English; many also assume that (only) a monolingual national community guarantees social coherence and they are dismissive of any language mediation services. In view of these ‘folk-sociolinguistic’ assumptions and linguaphobic attitudes, the notion of super-diversity needs to be reconfigured so as to include the (unintended) adverse impact of the migration-induced increase in the diversity and complexity of imagined ethno-linguistic identities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | language attitudes,linguaphobia,migration,multiculturalism,super-diversity,cultural studies,education,linguistics and language ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3316 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2019 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 09:52 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70747 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01434632.2018.1520859 |
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