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Multilingual Living

Explorations of Language and Subjectivity

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  • © 2005

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  1. Charlotte Burck
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Charlotte Burck
    Pages 1-8

  3. Researching Multilingualism and Multilingual Identities

    • Charlotte Burck
    Pages 9-31

  4. The Research Framework

    • Charlotte Burck
    Pages 32-45

  5. Childhoods in Several Languages

    • Charlotte Burck
    Pages 46-75

  6. Adulthoods in Several Languages: Constructions of Self and of Language

    • Charlotte Burck
    Pages 76-100

  7. Language Identities and Power Relationships: Strategies of Hybridization

    • Charlotte Burck
    Pages 101-121

  8. Language Use and Family Relationships

    • Charlotte Burck
    Pages 122-157

  9. Positioning the Researcher

    • Charlotte Burck
    Pages 158-168

  10. Concluding Discussion

    • Charlotte Burck
    Pages 169-193

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 194-218
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About this book

Multilingual Living presents speakers' own accounts of the challenges and advantages of living in several languages at individual, family and societal levels. Individuals note profound differences in their sense of themselves, their relationships and their parenting, depending on which language they use.

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'This is a delightful, scholarly, moving and important work, in which the voices of people immersed in multilingual living can be heard giving weight to ideas on hybridity and postmodern multiplicity. Real life pokes its head in here, triumphantly demonstrating what it means to live in a linguistically complex world. Social research should always be this good.' - Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychology and Vice-master of Birkbeck College,University of London.

About the author

CHARLOTTE BURCK is a Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist, Trainer and Researchers in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic, London, UK. Her other books include Gender and Family Therapy (with Gwyn Daniel) and Gender, Power and Relationships (with Bebe Speed).

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