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Thematising Multilingualism in the Media
Edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes and Tommaso M. Milani
[Journal of Language and Politics 10:4] 2011
► pp. 467–489

Thematising multilingualism in the media

| University of Limerick
| University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

The focus of this special issue is on the opportunities presented and challenges posed by the thematisation of multilingualism in the media. A number of case studies from a variety of linguistic, media, political, social, economic and educational contexts are presented, with the objective of addressing the challenges and opportunities that arise when multilingualism becomes thematised. In this introduction, we would like to address two main theoretical and methodological issues: (1) what we mean by multilingualism; and, (2) what we mean by thematising.

Keywords: bilingualism, language ideology, heteroglossia, media, multilingualism
Published online: 5 December 2011
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.10.4.01kel
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