How to Research Multilingually: Possibilities and Complexities

Holmes, Prue; Fay, Richard; Andrews, Jane; Attia, Mariam

doi:10.1002/9781119166283.ch6

Cited by 23 publications

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“…The investigation is shaped by ethnographic and multilingual principles (Blommaert & Jie 2010;Holmes et al 2016;Mercer 2010;Watson-Gegeo 1997) within a wider framework of critical sociolinguistics and discourse analysis (Cameron 2001;Heller et al 2018).…”

Section: Data Collection and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

The UK’s shifting diasporic landscape: negotiating ethnolinguistic heterogeneity in Greek complementary schools post-2010

Καρατσαρέας

2021

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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An estimated 65,000 Greek citizens migrated to the UK in 2010–2016, many of whom with the prospects of long-term settlement and with a view to provide better socioeconomic and educational opportunities to their children. Their arrival was felt across many sections of life both within and beyond the country’s pre-existing Greek-speaking communities. In this article, I present findings on how the arrival of Greek pupils, parents and qualified teachers diversified Greek complementary schools, which were previously run primarily by and for the Greek Cypriot community, and on the critical role language played in the process. Drawing on data from a set of semi-structured interviews with teachers and placing my investigation against the historical backdrop of migration from Greece and Cyprus to the UK, I show how teachers portrayed post-2010 migration as a much needed, albeit not always welcome, boost in ethnocultural vitality; how it helped to perpetuate the hierarchisation of standardised and non-standardised varieties of Greek and the stigmatisation of the multilingual and multidialectal repertoires of people with a Greek Cypriot background; and, how it put a strain on the ties that have historically brought the Greek and Greek Cypriot communities together in the context of the UK diaspora.

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Section: Data Collection and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

The UK’s shifting diasporic landscape: negotiating ethnolinguistic heterogeneity in Greek complementary schools post-2010

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2021

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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“…For some researchers, their own language resources can feel valuable from the outset of their research, whilst for others a particular experience (e.g. conducting data collection abroad) triggers their interest in multilingual research practice (Holmes et al 2016) The research (macro-and micro-) context: English as lingua franca…”

Section: The Research Phenomenon: Realising Researching Multilingually Possibilitiesmentioning

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‘I Was Surprised to See You in a Chinese School’: Researching Multilingually Opportunities and Challenges in Community-Based Research

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Holmes

2019

Applied Linguistics

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Researchers working in multilingual contexts must draw on their own linguistic resources when conceptualizing, planning, conducting, and reporting their studies, whether for theses or publications, or in dissemination to other stakeholders. However, these multilingual processes have received little attention in previous research. Drawing on an ethnographic study undertaken by Sara Ganassin in Chinese community language education, we investigate what opportunities and challenges a ‘researching multilingually’ perspective offers the researcher. We analyse narrative data and ethnographic observations to illustrate how the researcher drew on her multilingual resources vis-a-vis the linguistic spaces of her research context, the reflexive aspects of her multilingual positionality, and the ethical choices faced by her. From these insights, we make a theoretical and methodological case for embedding a researching multilingually approach in research that recognizes the linguistic resources of the researcher. The study has implications for building researcher capacity in multilingual research contexts, and for highlighting multilingual researcher processes that improve understanding, reporting, and representation of people from diverse linguistic and cultural horizons.

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“…A framework for researching multilingually (set out in Holmes, Fay, Andrews & Attia, 2013a) draws on intentionality (building on Stelma, 2012), research spaces (drawing upon Fay & Davcheva, 2012), and relationality (explored in Holmes, 2016) and the framework offers an overlay, which works with any research methodology, for understanding and interpreting how researchers might draw on their linguistic resources in the research process. Intentionality signals researchers' purposefulness in relation to language within their research including questions such as will they design their research so that it allows them to make use of their own linguistic resources in fieldwork and analysis as Bashiruddin (2013) did.…”

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“…"The research process proved to be more multilingual than what was initially planned" (Androulakis 2013, p. 368). In prior work (Holmes, Fay, Andrews & Attia 2013a;2016) we have explored how researchers in applied linguistics, and in academic disciplines beyond, have foregrounded and problematized languagerelated choices made in their research. The above quote presents Androulakis' researcher reflection on his team-based research processes and practices which were responsive to the linguistic diversity in the research context of adult migrant education in Greece.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%