International Journal of Bilingualism articles from September 1 2001

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from September 1 2001

Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts.
September 1, 2001... 1 Overview The focus of this special issue is on negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts, and the papers selected discuss various aspects of negotiation of identities by linguistic minority speakers. The authors argue that these...

Naturalization language testing and its basis in ideologies of national identity and citizenship *. (Main Articles).
September 1, 2001... Abstract National belonging is a central facet of modern social identities. In Europe, nation-building often went hand in hand with linguistic nationalism. While the monarchial empires that preceded the modern nation had been multilingual...

The wrong sort of capital? Bangladeshi women and their children's schooling in Birmingham, U.K.
September 1, 2001... Abstract The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, to present the findings of a study of Bangladeshi women's relations with their children's school in Birmingham, U.K., and the ways in which languages and literacies were regarded at...

"In the world of the tradition, I was unimagined": negotiation of identities in cross-cultural autobiographies *.
September 1, 2001... Abstract The present paper focuses on an unusual linguistic minority--contemporary American writers for whom English is a second language. The study examines ways in which these writers position and reposition themselves with regard to...

Hyphenated identities: Italian-Canadian youth and the negotiation of ethnic identities in Toronto *.
September 1, 2001... Abstract This paper examines the way Italian-Canadian youth negotiate their identities through their language practices. Language and culture are the paths through which identity performance can be observed and interpreted. In fact,...