New Immigrants and Multilingual Linguistic Landscape in Taiwan - Multilingual Matters by Ching-Yu Na & Serafín M Coronel-Molina Hardcover

About the Book

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the multilingual linguistic landscape in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, focusing on the impact of new immigrants and the diverse range of languages they speak, across urban and peripheral areas. It contributes to broader global discussions on multilingualism, language policy and language planning.

Book Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the multilingual linguistic landscape in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, focusing on the impact of new immigrants and the diverse range of languages they speak, across urban and peripheral areas. It contributes to broader global discussions on multilingualism, language policy and language planning.

Review Quotes

Na and Coronel-Molina offer a compelling analysis of how multilingual signage in Taoyuan City reflects Taiwan's shifting identities amid Asian immigration. This insightful ethnography reveals the public sphere as a space of cultural negotiation and belonging that offers a valuable contribution to sociolinguistics and migration studies, and a model for reading cities as globalized texts.

This book offers a broad and open-minded approach to multilingual signs in Taoyuan. It covers a greater variety of areas within the city, making sure we're getting 'the whole picture'. Particularly noteworthy is the inclusion of interview data in the second part of the analysis, which is a wonderful addition to the sign data.

About the Author

Ching-Yu Na works as a public-school English teacher at Futai Elementary School and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied English at Kainan University, Taiwan.

Serafín M. Coronel-Molina is a Full Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education, Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Head Coordinator of the Global Indigenous Studies Network in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.