Published since January 1, 1982

Multilingua

Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication

ISSN: 1613-3684

Edited by: Ingrid Piller

Impact Factor: 1.667

About this journal

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

Article formats

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.

History

Multilingua was founded in 1982 by Mouton Publishers (now De Gruyter Mouton) with the support of the Commission of the European Communities. J. C. Sager was the journal’s first Editor-in-Chief, followed by Richard Watts who served as Editor-in-Chief from 1987–2013 and who was responsible for establishing the journal as an international and renowned academic journal devoted to multilingualism and intercultural communication.

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Volume 41 Issue 5

September 2022

Publicly Available September 7, 2022

Frontmatter

Page range: i-iii

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Editorial

August 22, 2022

Multilingual family language policy in monolingual Australia: multilingual desires and monolingual realities

Hanna Irving Torsh, Loy Lising

Page range: 519-527

Articles

June 23, 2022

“It’s like the root of a tree that I grew up from….”: parents’ linguistic identity shaping family language policy in isolated circumstances

Elizabeth Margaret Ellis, Margaret Sims

Page range: 529-548

Abstract

A key factor that has been found to be critical in shaping family language policy is parents’ linguistic identities, or “parents’ personal experiences with bilingualism, biculturalism or second language learning” (King, Kendall A. & Lyn Fogle. 2006. Bilingual parenting as good parenting: Parents’ perspectives on family language policy for additive bilingualism. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 9(6). 695–712, p. 703). In other words, parents’ experiences of languages will colour and influence both their aims for their children’s plurilingualism, and the practices that they bring to bear to that end. This proposition was explored in a paper by Sims, Margaret, Elizabeth M. Ellis & Vicki Knox. 2017. Parental plurilingual capital in a monolingual context: Investigating strengths to support young children in early childhood settings. Early Childhood Education Journal 45. 777–787 (p. 779), that “parents construct their own understandings of plurilingualism based on their own experiences with languages” meaning that the parents’ linguistic identity indeed provides the potential and the basis for bringing up their children as plurilinguals. This paper, based on an Australian ARC-funded study, reports on the link between parents’ linguistic identity and their family language policy, on their impact beliefs (De Houwer, Annick. 1999. Environmental factors in early bilingual development: The role of parental beliefs and attitudes. In G. Extra & L. Verhoeven (eds.), Bilingualism and migration , 75–95. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 83), on the ways in which their aims for their children’s language development are articulated and put into practice, and on how they deal with their children’s emerging linguistic identity as plurilinguals, in a linguistically isolated context in regional New South Wales.

August 5, 2022

“I want her to be able to think in English”: challenges to heritage language maintenance in a monolingual society

Loy Lising

Page range: 549-569

Abstract

Filipino migrants are the fifth largest migrant community in Australia. Filipino migration to the country has been driven by socioeconomic and political factors in both the Philippines and Australia. Against this context, this paper investigates heritage language maintenance practices of Filipino migrant families by using a 2019 interview-based research study with five Filipino migrant families residing in Sydney. The five families were selected based on two criteria: the region in the Philippines where they came from and having a focal child in primary school. The first criterion captured participants from different Philippine linguistic background, while the second ensured a common denominator across the five families that impacts on heritage language practices. Employing Family Language Policy (FLP) as a lens for analysis, the study shows three key findings: (1) the families came to Australia with multilingual repertoires; (2) the parents’ language beliefs, mostly motivated by economic and social pressures attached to their ability to speak English well, dictated the family language practices in the home; and (3) their understanding of language learning plays a significant role in their FLP. This research is significant in terms of its contribution to advocacy and sociolinguistic research on heritage language maintenance among Filipino migrants (199).

April 21, 2022

Family language policy and dialect-Italian dynamics: across the waves of Italo-Australian migrant families

Antonia Rubino

Page range: 571-589

Abstract

In this article I adopt a family language policy approach and a diachronic perspective to explore how the dialect-Italian dynamics unfolds differently within different cohorts of Italian migrants due to the hierarchical position of the two heritage languages. I highlight three main issues that emerge across time in the language policies in the home; the relevance of linguistic stratification in the migrants’ repertoires, especially with regard to the interplay between language ideologies, beliefs and practices; the extent to which we can talk of agency of choice vis-à-vis linguistic stratification; and the role of education. The tension between the two languages generally plays out in favour of Italian, in spite of the emotional attachment to dialect that persists across generations. The language policies of Italo-Australian families call attention to the challenges that migrants, and dialect speakers in particular, have to face regarding language maintenance, while the diachronic perspective highlights the dynamic and contextual nature of such policies.

February 7, 2022

Transnational identities, being and belonging: the diverse home literacies of multilingual immigrant families

Kerry Taylor-Leech

Page range: 591-609

Abstract

This paper uses a transnational lens to discuss findings from a longitudinal study of the home literacy practices of linguistically diverse immigrant families. The paper draws on the experiences of three families to show how literacy events and practices index and mediate immigrants’ identities as they settle into the host community. Observations, interviews, and family members’ own documentation of their home literacies revealed the richness and complexity of the families’ linguistic repertoires. Using Levitt and Schiller’s distinction between ways of being and ways of belonging, the paper focuses on the role of everyday literacies in the families’ lives and on how critical events at home and abroad shaped family members’ identities as they navigated their new lives. The paper offers insights into the role of multilingual literacies in the settlement process and draws attention to the significance of literacy practices in shaping immigrants’ transnationalism.

May 24, 2022

‘Maybe if you talk to her about it’: intensive mothering expectations and heritage language maintenance

Hanna Irving Torsh

Page range: 611-628

Abstract

Maintaining heritage languages is frequently desired by migrants to continue cultural and social connections to family and identity. However, in imagined monolingual nations such as Australia, efforts to transmit minority languages are seen as a private matter and largely unsupported. Transmission of culture and language is also frequently seen as women’s work (Heller, Monica & Laurette Lévy. 1992. Mixed marriage: Life on the linguistic frontier. Multilingua 11(1). 32). This article seeks to explore how linguistically intermarried heterosexual couples orient to the task of heritage language maintenance along gender lines. It draws on a qualitative interview-based study into 22 couples living in Sydney. For the English-speaking background parents in the study, pressure to raise bilingual children arising out of a discourse of intensive mothering (Hays, Sharon. 1996. The cultural contradictions of motherhood . New Haven: Yale University Press) was experienced in more negative ways by mothers than fathers. The analysis points to the effects of the non-migrant partner’s first language and their gender on heritage language efforts in linguistically intermarried families, and their impact on the (dis)continuation of linguistic diversity.

Ahead of Print / Just Accepted

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Volume 41 (2022)

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)

Volume 20 (2001)

Volume 19 (2000)

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)

Volume 6 (1987)

Volume 5 (1986)

Volume 4 (1985)

Volume 3 (1984)

Volume 2 (1983)

Volume 1 (1982)

5-year Impact Factor	1.662
Cite Score	2.6
European Reference Index for the Humanities
Impact Factor	1.667
Journal Citation Indicator	1.71
SCImago Journal Rank	0.539
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	1.459

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Multilingua has an acceptance rate of ca. 15%. To maximize your chances of acceptance, it is essential that your article is within the scope of the journal. We are looking for theoretically and methodologically innovative research that has broader relevance. We particularly welcome research from marginalized and underexplored contexts.
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Manuscripts of between 8,000 and 12,000 words can be considered for publication as Research Articles. Shorter submissions may be considered for publication as Research Notes. Book Reviews should be no longer than 2,000 words
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Editorial

Outgoing Editor
Ingrid Piller
Department of Linguistics
Macquarie University, NSW 2109
Australia
e-mail: ingrid.piller@mq.edu.au

Incoming Editors
Eva Codó (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Jürgen Jaspers (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Editorial Board
Philipp Angermeyer (York University, Canada)
Jinhyun Cho (Macquarie University, Australia)
Eva Codó (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Alexandre Duchêne (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)
Ingrid Gogolin (Hamburg University, Germany)
Alexandra Grey (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Nelson Flores (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Huamei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Adam Jaworski (University of Hong Kong, China)
Petteri Laihonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Sabine Little (University of Sheffield, UK)
Ikuko Nakane (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Laura Smith-Khan (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Fatma Said (Goldsmiths, University of London, and University of York, UK)
Jie Zhang (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China)

(Deutsch)

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