What linguistic biographies of migrants can tell us: Multilingualism and identity

Krumm, Hans‐Jürgen

doi:10.1075/hsld.1.08kru

In:Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education
Edited by Peter Siemund, Ingrid Gogolin, Monika Edith Schulz and Julia Davydova
[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity 1] 2013
► pp. 165–176

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Multilingualism and identity

What linguistic biographies of migrants can tell us

Hans‐Jürgen Krumm

Published online: 31 May 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/hsld.1.08kru

How do migrants integrate the languages they experience and acquire during their migration into their linguistic identities? From a sociolinguistic perspective it is important to see which communication spaces and which communication roles can be taken by the migrants themselves and which are open to them because of the power structures of the societies they live in respectively. Language portraits and biographical interviews help to see which dispositions and attitudes develop, which linguistic heritage is structuring the identity change during the migration process.

Keywords: discrimination, identity, integration, language biographies, multilingualism

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