Multilingual Construction of Identity

German-Turkish Adolescents at School

von Isil Erduyan

298 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Reporting on a linguistic ethnographic study, Işıl Erduyan explores multilingual identity construction of high school students with Turkish descent enrolled in a downtown high school (Gymnasium) in Berlin. She focuses on naturally occurring classroom interactions across German, Turkish, and English classes and attends to the complex relationship between identities and multilingual repertoires through a scalar analytical perspective. Her findings demonstrate how multilingual students’ linguistic repertoires are bound by linguistic performances within and across multiple timescales. The study takes an innovative path by attending to the everyday linguistic practices of a group of multilingual immigrant students with the same national background through linguistic ethnographic lenses in the context of mainstream schooling in Europe, and by focusing on a much-understudied group, namely higher achieving students of immigrant descent enrolled in a German high school.

• Reihe: An Interdisciplinary Series of the Centre for Intercultural and European Studies - CINTEUS
• ISBN: 9783838212012
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.01.2019
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Sonstige Sprachen, Sonstige Literaturen
• Verlag: ibidem
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Gudrun Hentges, Anne Honer, Volker Hinnenkamp, Hans-Wolfgang Platzer