This study investigates how immigrant teachers and local Taiwanese students collaboratively construct cultural categories to create learning opportunities in a Southeast Asian cooking class. The data consist of 12.5 h of video recordings from an adult learning center. Drawing on sequential categorization analysis, the study examines how participants invoke formulation-, turn-, and sequence-generated cultural categories to organize epistemic authority and establish what counts as learnable knowledge. Three interactional practices are identified through which participants mobilize cultural categories to teach and learn about Southeast Asian cuisines: (a) generalizing features of Southeast Asian culinary practices, (b) constructing analogies bridging Taiwanese and Southeast Asian cuisines, and (c) contrasting observed Southeast Asian cooking with Taiwanese practices. These practices are accomplished through multimodal coordination, particularly gaze shifts that expand or change participation frameworks to index cultural distinction or affiliation. The findings extend research on identity construction in instruction beyond language learning contexts, revealing how cultural categories function as mutually constructed epistemic frameworks that simultaneously organize epistemic authority and create learning opportunities – making visible the category-bound predicates through which participants facilitate the learning of culture-specific culinary practices in situ.
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Multilingua
Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication
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Erstveröffentlichung:
1. Januar 1982
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6 Hefte pro Jahr
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Objective
Multilingua is an international academic journal for interdisciplinary research on linguistic diversity in social life. It publishes original high-quality research for scholars, students and practitioners with an interest in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, pragmatics, social psychology of language, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. The journal is particularly interested in analyses of hitherto neglected sociolinguistic contexts worldwide. Preferred topics of i nterest include:
- Bi- and multilingual communication
- Language policy
- Language-in-education practices
- Inter-, trans- and cross-cultural communication
- Language, discourse and communication in relation to migration, mobility across time and space, transnationalism and diaspora
- Translation and interpreting in situated social contexts
- Sociolinguistic studies of linguistic minorities
Multilingua publishes six issues per year. Apart from research articles it encourages other publication formats, such as scholarly debates, theoretical reviews, methodological reflections and thematic issues of wide importance to the field.
Article formats
- Research articles
- Review articles
- Editorial
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Your benefits:
- Provides an international forum for interdisciplinary research on linguistic diversity in social life
- Facilitates exchange of information and experience between academics and practitioners
- Focuses on neglected sociolinguistic contexts worldwide
- Features special issues allowing in-depth exploration of specific topics
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As of 2026, all De Gruyter journal subscriptions include access to every issue, from Volume 1, Issue 1 through to today, meaning subscribers can access even more research at no additional cost.
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Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertCreating learning opportunities through cultural categories: a sequential categorization analysis of multicultural cooking instructionLizenziert5. März 2026
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Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertUkrainian youth challenging the given role of a war refugee in arts-based collaborative researchLizenziert25. Februar 2026
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Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertEnglish within language diversification discourses: tracing ideologies at European teaching conferences in the 1970s and 1980sLizenziert18. Februar 2026
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Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertThe nameless border: reflections on the Western Gaze, responsibility, and narrativeLizenziert5. November 2025
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Heft 2Special Issue: Learning, re-learning, and un-learning language(s) in the multilingual family during the COVID-19 lockdown; Guest Editors: Fatma F.S. Said and Kristin Vold Lexander
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Heft 4Special Issue: Languaging the worker – Globalized governmentalities in/of language in peripheral spaces, Guest Editors: Kati Dlaske and Mireille McLaughlin
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Heft 4Special Issue: A variational pragmatic approach to regional variation in language: Celebrating the work of Klaus P. Schneider, Guest Editor: Anne Barron
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Heft 2Volume 32, Issue 2 (2013) Multilingua, Pragmatic and metapragmatic issues in Japanese honorific usage
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Band 44 | Heft 6 Special Issue: Critical reflections on criticality in the study of language, culture and society; Guest Editors: Anne Larsen, Lian Malai Madsen & Janus Spindler Møller
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| Journal Impact Factor | 1.8 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| 5-year Journal Impact Factor | 1.8 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| Journal Citation Indicator | 1.29 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| CiteScore | 3.9 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
| SCImago Journal Rank | 0.651 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 1.458 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| European Reference Index for the Humanities | 0 |
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Eva Codó
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)
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E-mail: eva.codo@uab.cat
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Université libre de Bruxellles
1050 Brussels
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E-mail: jurgen.jaspers@ulb.be
Editorial Board
Philipp Angermeyer (York University, Canada)
Lydia Catedral (The Hong-Kong Polytechnic University)
James Costa (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
Feliciano Chimbutane (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique)
Haley De Korne (University of Oslo, Norway)
Alexandre Duchêne (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)
Nelson Flores (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Adam Jaworski (University of Hong Kong, China)
Petteri Laihonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Matthieu LeBlanc (Université de Moncton, Canada)
Jia Li (Yunnan University, China)
Ikuko Nakane (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Adriana Patiño-Santos (University of Southampton, UK)
Uta Papen (Lancaster University, UK)
Laura Smith-Khan (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Fatma Said (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates)
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