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Christopher Stroud
Christopher Stroud is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, and Professor of Transnational Bilingualism at Stockholm University. His current rese...visualizza altroChristopher Stroud is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, and Professor of Transnational Bilingualism at Stockholm University. His current research focuses on practices and ideologies of multilingualism in Southern Africa, specifically Linguistic Citizenship, as a way of rethinking the role of language in brokering diversity in a decolonial framework. He has published in English, Swedish and Portuguese in journals such as Language Policy, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistic Studies, Semiotics, International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, MAN, and Multilingual Margins (the latter of which he is co-founder). He has edited and authored a number of volumes, most recently: The Multilingual Citizen: Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change (co-edited with Lisa Lim and Lionel Wee (2018), Multilingual Matters; The Sociolinguistics of the South (co-edited with Kathleen Heugh, Peter da Costa and Kerry Taylor Leech (2021), Routledge: Critical Studies in Multilingualism; and Language and Decoloniality in Higher Education: Reclaiming Voices from the South (co-edited with Zannie Bock) (2021), Bloomsbury Academic. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Science in South Africa (ASSAf), a Member of the UNESCO Chair in Multilingualism and Language Planning; Scientific Board Member: The Centre for Multilingualism across the Lifespan (MultiLing), Oslo University; He co-edits a series for Bloomsbury Press together with Kathleen Heugh and Piet van Avermaet entitled ‘Multilingualisms and Diversities in Education’.visualizza meno