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Published since January 1, 1982

Multilingua

Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication

ISSN: 1613-3684

Edited by: Eva Codó, Jürgen Jaspers

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Objective

Multilingua is a refereed academic journal publishing six issues per volume. It has established itself as an international forum for interdisciplinary research on linguistic diversity in social life. The journal is particularly interested in publishing high-quality empirical yet theoretically-grounded research from hitherto neglected sociolinguistic contexts worldwide.

Topics

Bi- and multilingualism
Language education, learning, and policy
Inter- and cross-cultural communication
Translation and interpreting in social contexts
Critical sociolinguistic studies of language and communication in globalization, transnationalism, migration, and mobility across time and space

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Research articles, research notes, reports, debates, review articles and short reviews

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Provides an international forum for interdisciplinary research on linguistic diversity in social life
Facilitates exchange of information and experience between academics and practitioners
Focuses on neglected sociolinguistic contexts worldwide
Features special issues allowing in-depth exploration of specific topics

Multilingua has partnered with Language on the Move to regularly feature selected Multilingua articles and to bring them to the attention of a wider audience. Language on the Move is a peer-reviewed sociolinguistics research site devoted to multilingualism, language learning and intercultural communication in the contexts of globalization and migration. Language on the Move aims to disseminate sociolinguistic research to a broad global audience.

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Volume 42 Issue 5

September 2023

Publicly Available September 11, 2023

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Page range: i-iii

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Articles

Publicly Available January 24, 2023

Authorities at play in Indigenous language reclamation: tensions and possibilities in the Yucatan Peninsula

Aldo Anzures, Frances Kvietok

Page range: 621-648

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Abstract

Language revitalization efforts have been critiqued for creating and reproducing linguistic, epistemological, and pedagogical hierarchies that might run counter to a community’s needs and interests. Drawing on a seven-year ethnographic and collaborative research with the Maya cultural promoters of the Caste War Museum in Tihosuco, Mexico, we describe the dynamics of our Maya language reclamation partnership focusing on the creation of bilingual comic books and summer workshops for children. These experiences show a slow but steady language reclamation approach based on the concern for younger generations to feel comfortable to claim their right to speak and learn Maya and on their fondness for Maya language and culture. We argue that the construction, negotiation, and assertion of linguistic and pedagogical authority among all participating actors is central to reclamation projects, and that these processes are impacted by outsider researchers-collaborators in ways that can support but also potentially harm these language efforts. This paper sheds light on the various tensions lived in long-term language reclamation projects, recognizing the need for outsider researchers to turn our reflexive gaze inwards and consider how we can bring to the fore practices we can celebrate as well as address and transform those that cause discomfort and uncertainty.

June 6, 2023

“Purement Amazigh”: investigating embodied ideologies and linguistic practices in Morocco

Dris Soulaimani

Page range: 649-674

Abstract

This research discusses language ideologies in Amazigh/Berber in Morocco. It analyzes Amazigh activists’ views on the process of Amazigh standardization, including dialect unification, script selection and reclaiming of Amazigh identity. Drawing on findings in the study of language ideologies and discourse analysis, this paper examines interviews with activists and demonstrates a connectedness between participants’ conceptions about language and their embodied actions. It also reveals ideological assemblages, in which conflicting language beliefs and practices are bound together. Through examination of the ideological divide on Amazigh language and script, the study shows how verbal and nonverbal actions iconically index aspects of Amazigh language ideologies, including linguistic purism, manifested through intricate forms of recontextualized lexical items, embodied gestures and voice features. The participants’ linguistic and non-linguistic practices provide insight into particular identity dimensions and complex social relations. The indexicalities of their utterances, which will be analyzed discursively, are better understood not only through consideration of the various semiotic resources such as embodiment, but also through discussion of specific histories of political and linguistic conflicts. The study as a whole relies on an interdisciplinary method to emphasize the political nature of language standardization and demonstrate the significant role of embodiment in language ideological research.

April 12, 2023

The representation of multilingualism in dubbing and subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

Behnam Rezvani Sichani, Mahmoud Afrouz, Ahmad Moinzadeh

Page range: 675-706

Abstract

Multilingualism serves an important function in the characterization of an audiovisual product; thus, its representation in translations demands scientific attention. The task of rendering multilingualism in translation becomes more complicated when no or limited access to the original audio content is possible. This being so, this study investigates the representation of multilingualism in English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) and Persian dubbing of four polyglot films. It examines and discusses the strategies adopted by translators in eight translations, both the SDH and dubbed versions. The results indicate that translators employ a variety of solutions and strategies to tackle challenges and render the third language (L3), but still dubbing tends to neutralize L3 in most instances. In the case of SDH, L3 was made explicit, but the high frequency of homogenising strategies and the loss of L3 in the translations were noticeable. These results could be of use for both cinema and translation professionals and non-professionals, particularly for enhancing media accessibility (MA) for the deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) community, besides adding to the body of studies on the translation of multilingualism.

April 3, 2023

The role of social networks in academic discourse socialization: insights from degree-seeking multilingual international students in China

Wendong Li, Yang Gong

Page range: 707-738

Abstract

This study adopted a social network perspective to explore the academic discourse socialization experiences of eight degree-seeking multilingual international students at a university in eastern China. Based on a triangulation of ethnographic interviews, social network questionnaires, and supplementary sources (e.g., voluntarily submitted recordings, texts about academic exchanges), the study revealed five patterns of students’ social networks, including heterogeneous-sparse network, heterogeneous-dense network, homogeneous-sparse network, homogeneous-dense network, and balanced network. This resulting network typology was utilized to interpret the role of social networks in individuals’ socialization trajectories, which were observed to include affecting capacities to negotiate academic norms , structuring channels to build and transform expertise , and shaping space for multicompetence development . While different network connections demonstrated different roles, networks with similar characteristics could exert divergent impacts, highlighting the mediation of a range of individual and sociocultural dynamics. Based on the findings, the study contributes to critical multilingual studies by offering theoretical implications for socialization research on community and competence, and providing practical suggestions for research, education, and program administration in international education.

March 16, 2023

Attention-consuming or attention-saving: an eye tracking study on punctuation in Chinese subtitling of English trailers

Ying Cui, Xiao Liu, Yuqin Cheng

Page range: 739-763

Abstract

Chinese subtitling of English trailers is essential for marketing foreign films in China, and there is a need to focus on audience reception. Ideal subtitles are expected to provide a necessary aid to the audience but to attract as little attention as possible. Paralinguistic factors like punctuation can influence the audience’s attention and reception. Therefore, this study aims to explore the impact of punctuation on a Chinese audience’s attention distribution between subtitles and visuals via the eye tracking technique. We recruited 62 participants and selected ten English trailers for films to be released. We prepared two parallel Chinese versions for each trailer, one using punctuation marks and the other using spaces. The participants were randomly assigned into two groups to watch the two versions respectively and filled out a questionnaire afterwards to rate their desire to watch those films. Data analyses show that, while punctuation does not have a significant impact on participants’ attitudes towards the films, the version without punctuation causes less fixation on subtitles, implying that omitting punctuation marks can ensure more attention to the visual and hence a better viewing experience.

January 4, 2023

“I’ll be there for you”: affective production of a “hyper-real” cultural-consumption space

Yang Song

Page range: 765-796

Abstract

The refashioning of popular cultural resources has become a salient strategy for the construction of “hyper-real” spaces of cultural consumption worldwide. Taking Lefebvre’s triadic model of space as the anchorage, this study proposes an analytical framework to examine the affective production of space. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in the Central Perk café in Shanghai as replicated from the American sitcom Friends . The analysis reveals that resemiotization, recontextualization, and the spatial arrangements of the interior café enabled fan-customers to orchestrate individual-specific affective assemblages based on their varied familiarity with the sitcom and alignment with its affective values and characterization. It is found that these affective assemblages afforded fan-customers socio-atmospherics featuring a cozy, relaxed state of being and a home-like sense of belonging. The affective practices of the human-nonhuman participants turned this themed café into a lived space of affinities that helped the café owner and fan-customers cope with atomization and precarity in cosmopolitan life. It is argued that the proposed analytical framework can reveal the role of affect as a critical social force that enables individuals to fulfill their sociocultural needs and desires by appropriating transnational popular cultural resources and co-producing a cultural consumption space.

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Volume 40 (2021)

Volume 39 (2020)

Volume 38 (2019)

Volume 37 (2018)

Volume 36 (2017)

Volume 35 (2016)

Volume 31 (2016)

Volume 34 (2015)

Volume 33 (2014)

Volume 32 (2013)

Volume 30 (2011)

Volume 29 (2010)

Volume 28 (2009)

Volume 27 (2008)

Volume 26 (2007)

Volume 25 (2006)

Volume 24 (2005)

Volume 23 (2004)

Volume 22 (2003)

Volume 21 (2002)

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Volume 18 (1999)

Volume 17 (1998)

Volume 16 (1997)

Volume 15 (1996)

Volume 14 (1995)

Volume 13 (1994)

Volume 12 (1993)

Volume 11 (1992)

Volume 10 (1991)

Volume 9 (1990)

Volume 8 (1989)

Volume 7 (1988)

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Volume 1 (1982)

Journal Impact Factor	2.3	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor	2.0	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
Journal Citation Indicator	1.65	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
CiteScore	3.5	2022, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.884	2022, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2023; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	1.329	2022, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2023; Data Source: Scopus)

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Editorial

Editors

Eva Codó
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)
Barcelona
Spain
E-mail: eva.codo@uab.cat

Jürgen Jaspers
Université libre de Bruxellles
1050 Brussels
Belgium
E-mail: jurgen.jaspers@ulb.be

Editorial Board
Philipp Angermeyer (York University, Canada)
Lydia Catedral (City University Hong Kong, China)
James Costa (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
Feliciano Chimbutane (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique)
Haley De Korne (University of Oslo, Norway)
Alexandre Duchêne (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)
Nelson Flores (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Adam Jaworski (University of Hong Kong, China)
Petteri Laihonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Matthieu LeBlanc (Université de Moncton, Canada)
Jia Li (Yunnan University, China)
Ikuko Nakane (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Adriana Patiño-Santos (University of Southampton, UK)
Uta Papen (Lancaster University, UK)
Laura Smith-Khan (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Fatma Said (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates)
Sarah Van Hoof (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)

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Online ISSN: 1613-3684
Print ISSN: 0167-8507
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
First published: January 1, 1982
Publication Frequency: 6 Issues per Year
Audience: scholars, students and practitioners