Multilingual Living presents speakers' own accounts of the challenges and advantages of living in several languages at individual, family and societal levels. Individuals note profound differences in their sense of themselves, their relationships and their parenting, depending on which language they use.

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'This is a delightful, scholarly, moving and important work, in which the voices of people immersed in multilingual living can be heard giving weight to ideas on hybridity and postmodern multiplicity. Real life pokes its head in here, triumphantly demonstrating what it means to live in a linguistically complex world. Social research should always be this good.' - Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychology and Vice-master of Birkbeck College,University of London.

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CHARLOTTE BURCK is a Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist, Trainer and Researchers in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic, London, UK. Her other books include Gender and Family Therapy (with Gwyn Daniel) and Gender, Power and Relationships (with Bebe Speed).

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Book Title: Multilingual Living
Book Subtitle: Explorations of Language and Subjectivity
Authors: Charlotte Burck
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508675
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3965-4Published: 07 December 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-55433-7Published: 07 December 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50867-5Published: 07 December 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 218
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Personality and Social Psychology, Family, Multilingualism, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

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