Research project The Politics and Ideologies of Multilingual Writing

Our aim is to focus on the process and trajectory of writing for publication by multilingual authors and/or in multilingual settings. We aim to bring together researchers working in different but related fields dealing with language, media and literary studies, history of ideas, and education.

Our main focus will be on academic, literary and other new and emergent written genres in the fields of language and literary studies, where the issues surrounding the legitimacy of language use are particularly pronounced. Questions of legitimacy, literacy practices surrounding knowledge production, translocality, translingualism, belonging and identity, and the marketisation and commodification of "knowledge society", will provide a basis for thematic workshops in which our network participants will present and discuss their work in progress.

We plan to invite two external experts in the field to act as keynote speakers and discussants at the workshops. The two main outcomes of these workshops will be 1) a thematic special journal issue or edited volume, and 2) a joint research project funding application.

The politics and ideologies of multilingual writing (PIM)