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Multilingua

Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication

ISSN: 1613-3684

Herausgegeben von: Eva Codó, Jürgen Jaspers

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Objective

Multilingua is an international academic journal for interdisciplinary research on linguistic diversity in social life. It publishes original high-quality research for scholars, students and practitioners with an interest in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, pragmatics, social psychology of language, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. The journal is particularly interested in analyses of hitherto neglected sociolinguistic contexts worldwide. Preferred topics of interest include:

Bi- and multilingual communication

Language policy

Language-in-education

Inter-, trans- and cross-cultural communication

Language, discourse and communication in relation to migration, mobility across time and space, transnationalism and diaspora.

Translation and interpreting as a social practice

Multilingua publishes six issues per year. Apart from research articles it encourages other publication formats, such as scholarly debates, theoretical reviews, methodological reflections and thematic issues of wide importance to the field.

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Research articles, debates, review articles and thematic issues

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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

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Band 42 Heft 6

November 2023

Öffentlich zugänglich 8. November 2023

Frontmatter

Seiten: i-iii

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Editorial

Open Access 8. September 2023

Investigating sociolinguistic differentiation through reflexive practices: metapragmatics, regimentation and empowerment

Gilles Merminod, Raymund Vitorio

Seiten: 797-807

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16. März 2023

Perceiving in networking interactions: emblems, indexicality, and their mapping through reflexivity

Jacqueline Militello

Seiten: 809-830

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For newly met acquaintances, deployment of a single lexical term, an emblem such as tech or finance , signals where one stands in the professional universe and points to any manner of traits and characteristics or a certain type of person. This positioning and evaluation has pivotal real-world implications for occupational attainment as people decide whether a conversation is worth continuing and a contact worth advancing. This study examines self-presentation sequences at a professional networking event in Hong Kong. In the interactions at these events, professional emblems serve to locate people amongst different taxonomies, such as hierarchies of eliteness, and invoke various traits. But in highly diverse, globalized contexts like this one in Hong Kong, what happens when shared knowledge of emblems is not readily available, and how do participants negotiate this? This study seeks to answer these underexamined questions, acutely relevant in particular social circles nowadays, focusing on misrecognized, vaguely recognized, semiotically transposed, and spuriously recognized cases. It also introduces advanced visual depictions of the indexical maps that participants hold, in all their complexity, drawing both from interaction, where there are some hints of emblem uptake, and subsequent interviews, where emblems’ indexicalities and their social value to social actors are made explicit. This study fills a gap in how people with diverse biographies ‘cobble together’ indexical meanings in the moment to position their interactants within their conceptions of the world and ascribe social value.

Open Access 22. Mai 2023

“A new worker, for a new order, in a new era”: English, power and shifting ideologies of reflexivity in a Chinese global workplace

Eleanor Yue Gong

Seiten: 831-853

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This paper offers a historiographic and ethnographic analysis of how reflexivity, as a communicative practice and valued personality trait, has been understood, regulated, legitimised and used to control Chinese workers from the planned-economy era to the present. Using a Shanghai-based multinational company as a case study, I document how and under what conditions English-mediated reflexivity, with its stress on self-entrepreneurship, came to replace former Mandarin-mediated reflexivity supporting a notion of collective workerhood. Special attention is paid to reflexivity’s changing roles in shaping, managing and evaluating workers and facilitating understandings of labour, power and agency. The paper argues that the emerging English-dominated reflexivity represents a required linguistic shift for the creation of a new worker type in the current globalised economy as it normalises managerial technologies of discipline, stratification and exclusion.

Open Access 28. April 2023

Preparing for the deployment of ready-made stories in social interaction: reflexivity and narrative practices in professional communication

Gilles Merminod

Seiten: 855-874

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Since the nineties, the idea that narratives are essential for an efficient communication has massively spread in management, marketing and politics, supported by the profuse publication of storytelling guides and criticized by a number of social commentators. Nevertheless, little is known about how reflexive activities specific to professional communication partake in the visibility and solidification of this specific way of conceiving the use of stories. Drawing on semiotic-inspired works in linguistic anthropology, studies on talk-in-interaction and narrative analysis, this article analyzes how reflexive activities contribute to the construction of specific conceptions of what narratives are and what they do in professional communication. To achieve this, the article relies on a single case study that details the kind of ready-made stories and contextualization devices a storytelling guide provides for its readers. The analysis shows that the storytelling guide builds up a cultural model that is both archiving past narrative situations (a model-of action) and potentially generating new narrative situations (a model-for action). By doing so, the storytelling guide not only singles out specific communicative resources but also fuels a metapragmatic model in which accomplished storytellers are at the top of the social structure.

22. Mai 2023

New citizenship and the negotiation of the global/local interface: reflexivity, emotions, and metapragmatics

Raymund Vitorio

Seiten: 875-895

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Abstract

New citizens are typically characterized as people who occupy an estuarial position between the global and the local: to simultaneously become authentic to their global provenience and rooted in their new local societies, they are expected to cautiously partake in processes of differentiation as they construct their identities. This article investigates how new citizens negotiate this seemingly untenable position to present themselves as new citizens of Singapore who have negotiated the global/local dichotomy, rendering themselves as legitimate citizens. By adopting a metapragmatic approach, the article focuses on two object-signs that new citizens commonly deploy: familial relations and passports. The analysis traces how the semiotic potential of these object-signs is mediated by accounts of emotions, which are indispensable considerations of how signs realize their semiotic potential. Through situated reflexive practices, new citizens use these object-signs to equivocally and strategically manage supposed markers of difference, which consequently enables them to claim legitimacy as Singaporeans. These identities challenge regimented views about the global and local affordances of the notion of citizenship. This expands the semiotic range of good/new citizenship, which may prove instructive in understanding variegated understandings of citizenship not just in Singapore but also in other contemporary multicultural societies.

Open Access 8. September 2023

(Un)doing regimentation in reflexive practices: on-site processes of sociolinguistic differentiation – a commentary

Miguel Pérez-Milans

Seiten: 897-907

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Abstract

This article discusses Volume 42(6) where the editors (Gilles Merminod and Raymund Vitorio) push for a metapragmatic approach to reflexive practices of sociolinguistic differentiation. With reference to my own trajectory, I review this lens as suitable to accounting for how people affectively take part in the making of difference and similarities between signs, social situations and positions in daily meaning-making practices and the larger inequalities that these practices may contribute to sustain and interrogate. In doing so, I focus on story-telling templates in professional communication, citizenship narratives in research interviews, English-oriented forms of self-evaluation in the workplace and ritualised instances of self-presentation in interaction and evaluations of others’ self-presentation in networking events as indexical signs that articulate a range of moralised meanings and categories of “ideal” versus “non-ideal” social persona upon which arrangements of social life and work get (re)instituted. I also discuss the socioeconomic hierarchies and forms of distinction that such arrangements (re)produce in different settings. Finally, I suggest further epistemological avenues for research exploring linkages across events and for following more closely the consequences that such events have for certain people, with attention to existing disciplinary synergies (and social theories) within and beyond the language disciplines.

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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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Please format your manuscript according to the De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet. Failure to do this may result in rejection of the manuscript
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Multilingua uses a double-blind peer review procedure. This means that reviewers do not know the identity of author(s) and vice versa. The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: title page, main text file and figures/tables (if any). Self-identifying citations and references should be left blank when manuscripts are first submitted. Authors are responsible for reinserting self-identifying material when manuscripts are prepared for the final submission. The review will take on average 2-3 months. Submissions are sent to 2-3 reviewers. You will be informed by e-mail if your manuscript has been accepted or rejected or if it requires further attention.
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 for research articles must be between 8,000 and 12,000 words to be considered for publication.
Guest editors and contributors of special issues will receive complimentary print copies of the issue
If you wish to propose a special issue, please contact the editors.

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Authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. The standard article processing charge for a hybrid open access article is 2,000 Euro (plus VAT if applicable). Please note that corresponding authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement, can publish open access without paying the fee. More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found here.

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
Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Erstveröffentlichung: 1. Januar 1982
Erscheinungsweise: 6 Hefte pro Jahr
Zielgruppe: scholars, students and practitioners