Adrian Blackledge

TL;DR: The authors argue for a release from monolingual instructional approaches and advocate teaching bilingual children by means of bilingual instructional strategies, in which two or more languages are used alongside each other, and they take a language ecology perspective and seek to describe the interdependence of skills and knowledge across languages.

TL;DR: New theoretical approaches to the study of identity negotiation in multilingual contexts have been proposed by as discussed by the authors, including the making of an American, negotiation of identities at the turn of the 20th century, Aneta Pavlenko constructions of identity in political discourse in multi-ilingual Britain, Adrian Blackledge negotiating between bourge and racaille - Verlan as youth identity practice in suburban Paris, Meredith Doran (Pennsylvania State University) Black Deaf or Deaf Black? being Black and Deaf in Britain, Melissa James and Bencie Woll (City University

TL;DR: In this article, a multilingual research team discusses the history of bilingualism in local and global spaces, including the opening up of multilingual spaces and the disinventing of the national lexicon.

TL;DR: In this paper, Blackledge develops a theoretical and methodological framework which draws on critical discourse analysis to reveal the linguistic character of social and cultural processes and structures; on Bakhtin's notion of the dialogic nature of discourse to demonstrate how voices progressively gain authority; and on Bourdieu's model of symbolic domination to illuminate the way in which linguisticminority speakers may be complicit in the misrecognition, or valorisation, of the dominant language.