Exploring Identity Across Language and Culture

The Psychological, Emotional, Linguistic, and Cultural Changes Following Migration
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-08073-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

This book explores the ways in which migrants’ experience in today’s multilingual and multicultural society informs language use and processing, behavioural patterns, and perceptions of self-identity.

Drawing on survey data from hundreds of Italian migrants living in English- speaking countries, in conjunction with more focused interviews, this volume unpacks reciprocal influences between linguistic, cultural, and psychological variables to shed light on how migrants emotionally engage with the local and heritage dimensions across public and private spaces. Visualising the impact of a constant shifting of linguistic and cultural practices can enhance our understanding of migration experiences, foreign language acquisition, language processing and socialisation, inclusion, integration, social dynamics, acculturation tendencies, and cross-cultural communication patterns.

Overall, this book appeals to students and scholars interested in gaining nuanced insights into the linguistic, cultural, and psychological underpinnings of migration experiences in such disciplines as sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and social psychology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panicacci, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter I

‘A constellation of selves’: Experiencing identity across languages and cultures



Chapter II

Investigating migrants’ linguistic and cultural identities at a multidisciplinary level: Tools, methods, and thoughts



Chapter III

Linguistic changes in migrants’ experience



Chapter IV

Cultural changes in migrants’ experience



Chapter V

Personality changes in migrants’ experience



Chapter VI

Migrants’ linguistic and cultural hybridity



Chapter VII

Societal implications and future directions

Über Autor(innen)

Alex Panicacci is a British Academy Postdoctoral Researcher at Queen Mary University of London’s Linguistic Department and University of Washington’s Psychology Department. She has authored works in the areas of multilingualism, affective socialisation, acculturation, emotion, and personality with a fundamental focus on identity practices and linguistic, cultural, and racial diversity.