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Handbook of Language and Mobility

Edited by: Alfonso Del Percio

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 19 | Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL]

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The Handbook of Language and Mobility challenges the assumption that mobility is a new norm. It maps new developments in language and mobility scholarship, tracing how the mobility of language, people, and knowledge intersects with multiplicity, infrastructures, historicity, new political formations, and processes of world-making.

By decentering mobility, this handbook questions which processes come to be recognized as mobile, and how mobility is historically shaped, regulated, valued, and stigmatized. By recentering mobility, it explores its productive dimensions – how it sustains and aligns with celebratory ideologies of globalization, technology, and agency, creates value, and contributes to the management and legitimation of difference and inequality. Mobility here is not just about movement – it shapes time, space, subjectivities, power, and systems of accumulation.

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Alfonso Del Percio, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface to the Handbooks of Applied Linguistics Series Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction
Chapter 1 Mobilities and language: setting the scene Alfonso Del Percio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Mobility, knowledge, and the politics of meaning
Chapter 2 How race works like a language: a sociolinguistic perspective on the resignification of race Sibo Kanobana and Mi-Cha Flubacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Chapter 3 In pursuit of the Malaysian Catholic communal story across multiple sites of discursivities Shanthini Pillai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Agency, power, and value
Chapter 4 Agency and the politics of globalizing and localizing Helen Kelly-Holmes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Chapter 5 M obility assemblage: a productive interaction between materiality, discourse, and affect Sari Pietikäinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
Part II: Mobility, identity, and social dynamics
Chapter 6 Language and politics of personhood across the lifespan and speakers’ socio-spatial orientations Anna Ghimenton and Michelle Auzanneau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
Chapter 7 Mobilising expertise: Gendered face work in elite contract labour Olivia Droz-dit-Busset Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
Chapter 8 (Not) Everything is on the move: virtual migration, affect, and language Aileen O. Salonga and Nelson M. Buso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
Reactionary mobilities of discourse
Chapter 9 Circulation in the manosphere: mobile matrices of reactionary masculinity Scott Burnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Chapter 10 Circulation and regimentation in the American right’s talk about schools Catherine Tebaldi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Part III: Violent, forced, and regulated mobilities
Chapter 11 Migration, liberal power, and the politics of differential inclusion Alfonso Del Percio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
Chapter 12 Interlanguaging: linguistic governmentality in the age of hypermobility Julie Tay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
War and the displacement of language and people
Chapter 13 Linguistic repertoires and forced migration Guri Bordal Steien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Chapter 14 War(s), state violence, and the mobilities of Sudanese semiotic resources: a case of Fur communities Mohammad Alkhair and Othman Z. Barnawi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283
Part IV: Mobility, migration, and globalised inequalities
Chapter 15 Between values and limitations: migrants’ ambivalent perceptions of the “lusophone market” in Luxembourg Bernardino Tavares Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
Chapter 16 Managing migrant labour: the flexible and fixed language policy and practices of a multilingual laundry Kamilla Kraft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Education, inequality, and migration infrastructures
Chapter 17 Mobile learners and the migration infrastructures of language learning industries Beatriz P. Lorente and Larissa S. Schedel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	359
Chapter 18 International mobility, student exploitation, and the failing of UK higher education Katy Highet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Part V: Technological presents and futures of mobility
Chapter 19 Mobilities of smartphone-based interaction Jannis Androutsopoulos and Florian Busch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Chapter 20 Language and mobility in the human- machine era Dave Sayers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	421
Chapter 21 Governance of mobility: the use of new technologies for language assessment Derya Ozkul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	431
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed

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eBook published on:

July 31, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9781501507960

Hardcover published on:

July 31, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9781501516542

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Front matter:

12

Main content:

453

Illustrations:

19

Tables:

2

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501507960

eBook ISBN: 9781501507960

Hardcover ISBN: 9781501516542

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Migration; Communication; Language Change

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Libraries, Academic Institutes, Scholars and Researchers who are interested in Linguistics

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