Handbook of Language and Mobility - Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [Hal] by Alfonso del Percio Hardcover

About the Book

Present day migration and new means of communication create new patterns of multilingualism, language contact, language maintenance and change which have an impact on language competences and identities both of individuals and groups as well as the

Book Synopsis

The Handbook of Language and Mobility challenges the assumption that mobility is a new norm. It maps new developments in language and mobility scholarship, tracing how the mobility of language, people, and knowledge intersects with multiplicity, infrastructures, historicity, new political formations, and processes of world-making.

By decentering mobility, this handbook questions which processes come to be recognized as mobile, and how mobility is historically shaped, regulated, valued, and stigmatized. By recentering mobility, it explores its productive dimensions - how it sustains and aligns with celebratory ideologies of globalization, technology, and agency, creates value, and contributes to the management and legitimation of difference and inequality. Mobility here is not just about movement - it shapes time, space, subjectivities, power, and systems of accumulation.

About the Author

Alfonso Del Percio, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland.