This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of linguistic citizenship. Each chapter illuminates how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.
Quentin Williams is Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) and Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His most recent book is Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa (HSRC Press, 2019, with Adam Haupt, H. Samy Alim and Emile Jansen).
Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently co-editor of Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact (with Salikoko Mufwene) and co-editor of Edinburgh Sociolinguistics (with Paul Kerswill). She is a recipient of the Neville Alexander Award for Multilingualism and the Humboldt Research Award.
Tommaso M. Milani is Professor of Multilingualism at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Visiting Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is co-editor of the journal Language in Society and he edits the Bloomsbury book series Advances in Sociolinguistics.