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  • Formaat: Hardback, 288 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 12 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2026
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032535431
  • ISBN-13: 9781032535432
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Multilingualism and Wellbeing
  • Formaat: Hardback, 288 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 12 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2026
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032535431
  • ISBN-13: 9781032535432
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Multilingualism and Wellbeing is an innovative text that combines sociolinguistic, psychological and philosophical approaches to explore multilingualism as a source of wellbeing. It challenges the “monolingual bias” and the common assumption that multilingualism is solely driven by utilitarian, formal, or identity-based motivations.



Multilingualism and Wellbeing is an innovative text that combines sociolinguistic, psychological and philosophical approaches to explore multilingualism as a source of wellbeing. It challenges the “monolingual bias” and the common assumption that multilingualism is solely driven by utilitarian, formal, or identity-based motivations.

Across nineteen carefully edited chapters, contributors illustrate the enduring vitality of multilingualism across the globe through personal and empirical accounts, investigating diverse motivations behind its persistence. Authors present compelling evidence for multilingualism’s positive impact on a person’s sense of mental, social and cultural wellbeing. With a distinctive global reach, this volume showcases multilingual experiences from regions including West Africa, the Netherlands, Georgia, Japan, and Indonesia, while also examining governmental policies that promote multilingualism—despite the practical challenges involved—offering a nuanced and balanced perspective.

This groundbreaking work is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in multilingualism, language acquisition, language learning and applied linguistics, as well as for those in related fields of sociology, psychology and philosophy.

Arvustused

'The volume Multilingualism and Wellbeing, edited by Dick Smakman, Jemima Anderson, and Gladys Ansah, offers a refreshing new outlook on multilingualism by focusing on its psychological and emotional impact, and by positively associating it with the well-being of multilingual speakers. It provides a new perspective in the study of multilingualism, moving beyond the well-trodden paths of research into language choice, identity construction, power, and functionality. This is definitely a book I would like students in my Sociolinguistics class to read.'

Nadia Shalaby, Professor of Linguistics, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

'This book is a ground-breaking contribution to multilingualism research, moving beyond questions of social identity and towards the felt experience of language. Multilingualism, the authors argue, is essential for the well-being of speakers and is thus closely linked to affect. The message is as simple as it is important: multilingualism makes us happy and brings us pleasure.'

Ana Deumert, Professor of Linguistics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Part I:
1. Wellbeing and Multilingualism
2. Multilingualism and
Happiness
3. The Wellbeing of Being Multilingual in Bulgaria Part II:
4.
Multilingualism in Ghanas Healthcare: A Neglected Barrier
5.
Multilingualism: Happiness and Wellbeing in South-Western Nigeria and Greater
Accra, Ghana
6. Multilingualism and Wellbeing: Reflections from Ghana
7.
Multilingualism as a Tool for Destressing: Evidence from Northern Ghana Part
III:
8. The Impact of State Language Knowledge on Georgian Ethnic Minority
Students Wellbeing
9. Conceptualization of Wellbeing: Kuleana
Responsibility, Revitalization, and Reclamation of the Hawaiian language
10. Multilingualism and Social Wellbeing: The Sierra Leone Wan Pot: The
Official, the Lingua Franca and the Indigenous
11. The Language Chameleon:
Between Happiness and Worries about Being Bilingual in Catalonia Part IV:
12.
Linguistic wellbeing in Multi-ethnic The Hague
13. Rethinking Migrants
Wellbeing in Germany through a Multilingual Lens
14. Multilingualism and
Economic Wellbeing of Female Migrants in Accra
15. Verfremdung Part V:
16.
Sweet Sounds of Melancholy: Brabantish as a Language of Culture
17.
Multilingualism and Wellbeing in Japan: The Case of Yomitan Village in
Okinawa
18. The Relation between Degree of Multilingualism and Experiences of
Wellbeing in Catalonia
19. Multilingualism and Wellbeing in Timor-Leste
Dick Smakman works as a Sociolinguist for Leiden University, the Netherlands. This is his third co- edited volume, in which special attention is given to contributions on lesser- known sociolinguistic contexts, particularly those outside the Anglo- Western realm. The first two volumes in this series were Globalising Sociolinguistics: Challenging and Expanding Theory (Smakman & Heinrich, Routledge, 2015) and Urban Sociolinguistics: The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience (Smakman & Heinrich, Routledge, 2018).

Jemima Asabea Anderson is a Sociolinguist at the Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon.

Gladys Nyarko Ansah works as Associate Professor with the Department of English, University of Ghana. She is a cognitive/applied linguist with many research interests including the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. She co-authored a chapter on A sociolinguistic mosaic of West Africa: challenges and prospects in Smakman and Heinrichs 2015 book Globalising Sociolinguistics: Challenges and Expanding Theory.