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Tension-filled english at the multilingual university : a Bakhtinian perspective / Maria Kuteeva.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Multilingual Matters SerPublisher: Bristol ; Jackson : Multilingual Matters, [2023]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1800416733
  • 9781800416727
  • 1800416725
  • 9781800416734
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tension-filled english at the multilingual universityDDC classification:
  • 378.017/509485 23/eng/20221220
LOC classification:
  • LC3738.S8
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Conventions -- 1 Tension-Filled English at the Multilingual University: Introduction -- Part 1 Multi-Faceted English in Multilingual University Settings -- 2 Exploring Conceptualisations of English: Standard, Lingua Franca and Translingual Practice -- 3 'More parallel?': English in University Language Policies and Wider Discourses -- Part 2 Research Dialogue through 'Unitary' Englishes -- 4 Language in Academic Disciplines: The Object of Study and its 'Voice' -- 5 Towards New 'Unitary Language': Language Requirements and Multilingual Researchers' Perspectives -- Part 3 Language Perceptions and Repertoires: Between Unitary and Heteroglossic Englishes -- 6 Shifting Norms: Students' Perceptions of English as Standard, Lingua Franca and Translingual Practice -- 7 Tensions Between Present and Desired Repertoires: Translingual Writers' Lived Experience of English and Polyglossic Selves -- 8 Conclusion: Ways Forward for the Study of Tension-Filled English -- References -- Index
Summary: "This book explores the idea that English in the multilingual university is filled with and surrounded by tensions and employs this fact to examine the use of English in Swedish universities. It offers a fresh way of tracing the links between language perceptions and practices on the ground, and the forces and processes which govern these practices"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book explores the idea that English in the multilingual university is filled with and surrounded by tensions and employs this fact to examine the use of English in Swedish universities. It offers a fresh way of tracing the links between language perceptions and practices on the ground, and the forces and processes which govern these practices"-- Provided by publisher.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Conventions -- 1 Tension-Filled English at the Multilingual University: Introduction -- Part 1 Multi-Faceted English in Multilingual University Settings -- 2 Exploring Conceptualisations of English: Standard, Lingua Franca and Translingual Practice -- 3 'More parallel?': English in University Language Policies and Wider Discourses -- Part 2 Research Dialogue through 'Unitary' Englishes -- 4 Language in Academic Disciplines: The Object of Study and its 'Voice' -- 5 Towards New 'Unitary Language': Language Requirements and Multilingual Researchers' Perspectives -- Part 3 Language Perceptions and Repertoires: Between Unitary and Heteroglossic Englishes -- 6 Shifting Norms: Students' Perceptions of English as Standard, Lingua Franca and Translingual Practice -- 7 Tensions Between Present and Desired Repertoires: Translingual Writers' Lived Experience of English and Polyglossic Selves -- 8 Conclusion: Ways Forward for the Study of Tension-Filled English -- References -- Index

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