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Chapter 3 In pursuit of the Malaysian Catholic communal story across multiple sites of discursivities

  • Shanthini Pillai
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Handbook of Language and Mobility
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface to the Handbooks of Applied Linguistics Series V
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Contents IX
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 Mobilities and language: setting the scene 1
  7. Part I: Mobility, knowledge, and the politics of meaning
  8. Chapter 2 How race works like a language: a sociolinguistic perspective on the resignification of race 25
  9. Chapter 3 In pursuit of the Malaysian Catholic communal story across multiple sites of discursivities 53
  10. Agency, power, and value
  11. Chapter 4 Agency and the politics of globalizing and localizing 73
  12. Chapter 5 M obility assemblage: a productive interaction between materiality, discourse, and affect 91
  13. Part II: Mobility, identity, and social dynamics
  14. Chapter 6 Language and politics of personhood across the lifespan and speakers’ socio-spatial orientations 113
  15. Chapter 7 Mobilising expertise: Gendered face work in elite contract labour 131
  16. Chapter 8 (Not) Everything is on the move: virtual migration, affect, and language 159
  17. Reactionary mobilities of discourse
  18. Chapter 9 Circulation in the manosphere: mobile matrices of reactionary masculinity 177
  19. Chapter 10 Circulation and regimentation in the American right’s talk about schools 201
  20. Part III: Violent, forced, and regulated mobilities
  21. Chapter 11 Migration, liberal power, and the politics of differential inclusion 219
  22. Chapter 12 Interlanguaging: linguistic governmentality in the age of hypermobility 241
  23. War and the displacement of language and people
  24. Chapter 13 Linguistic repertoires and forced migration 263
  25. Chapter 14 War(s), state violence, and the mobilities of Sudanese semiotic resources: a case of Fur communities 283
  26. Part IV: Mobility, migration, and globalised inequalities
  27. Chapter 15 Between values and limitations: migrants’ ambivalent perceptions of the “lusophone market” in Luxembourg 307
  28. Chapter 16 Managing migrant labour: the flexible and fixed language policy and practices of a multilingual laundry 335
  29. Education, inequality, and migration infrastructures
  30. Chapter 17 Mobile learners and the migration infrastructures of language learning industries 359
  31. Chapter 18 International mobility, student exploitation, and the failing of UK higher education 377
  32. Part V: Technological presents and futures of mobility
  33. Chapter 19 Mobilities of smartphone-based interaction 395
  34. Chapter 20 Language and mobility in the human- machine era 421
  35. Chapter 21 Governance of mobility: the use of new technologies for language assessment 431
  36. List of contributors
  37. Index
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