New Approaches to Language and Identity in Contexts of Migration and Diaspora

New Approaches to Language and Identity in Contexts of Migration and Diaspora draws together expertise and contemporary research findings in respect of language and identity in migrant and diasporic contexts throughout the world.

Over thirteen chapters, contributors examine the intersection between migration, language, and identity through analyses of migration discourses, language practices, and legal policy, as well as the ideologies embedded and revealed within them. A wide range of subject areas and interdisciplinary approaches are represented, with fifteen authors drawn from the fields of education, intercultural communication, linguistics, geography, migration studies, psychology, and sociology.

This volume will primarily appeal to scholars and researchers in fields such as migration, intercultural communication, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, multilingualism, and heritage language learning.

Stuart Dunmore works in language policy and planning and is an associate tutor at the Institute for Language Education in the University of Edinburgh. His research examines language ideologies, minority language use and cultural identities, with particular reference to Celtic language communities in the UK and North America. In 2022 he was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University.

Karolina Rosiak is an assistant professor at the Celtic Studies Research Unit, Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research examines the sociolinguistics of the Welsh language, linguistic aspects of Polish migration to Wales, with particular focus on language attitudes and ideologies, and cultural ties between Wales and Poland.

Charlotte Taylor is professor of discourse and persuasion within Linguistics and English Language at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are centred on language use, discourse analysis and pragmatics, particularly in relation to politeness, migration, nostalgia and metaphor.