Alternative Voices: (Re)searching Language, Culture, Identity …Imtiaz Hasnain This edited volume presents Alternative Voices in the contexts of present-day and historical globalisation, the emergence of the knowledge society, increased global-local or glocal migration flows, the explosion of social media, and disparate regional growth that have both impacted and shaped the sociocultural fabric of geopolitical spaces across the world. The volume builds upon twenty-seven contributions that focus upon issues related to language, culture and identity from a multidisciplinary nexus of historical, philosophical and empirically-based traditions. Positioned in post-colonial emic heritage, the research presented here challenges the “monolingual (including monocultural) bias” and the “linguacentric bias” in the Language Sciences. This volume is an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating issues related to the complexity of culture and language, and their links with social, political, economic forces, particularly the tensions related to glocal identity positions that are evoked and played out in geopolitically heterogeneous spaces. Given its multidisciplinary nature, this volume presents individual comprehensive accounts of complexities that have been poorly understood and inadequately covered in the existing literature – both in Southern and Northern contexts. |
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CHAPTER TWO | 50 |
CHAPTER THREE | 65 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 74 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 89 |
CHAPTER SIX | 112 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 120 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | 225 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 240 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN | 260 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN | 274 |
CHAPTER TWENTY | 286 |
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE | 304 |
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO | 313 |
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE | 323 |
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