Book Review

The first part discusses discourses about multilingualism across political and historical contexts, and includes several chapters on historical and contemporary language rights, particularly in the cases of minority languages (including sign languages), colonialism, and indigenous groups. [...]multilingualism in practice encompasses many speakers who use specific languages in specific environments (e.g. ritual or religious language, accessing public services, etc.), or use a mix of all languages (e.g. Montreal rap and hip-hop culture, classroom discourse, street markets of multilingual cities, etc.) to communicate more effectively. Overall, this book will be of great interest to researchers and policy advisors who work on language in education as well as education in languages, second and foreign language acquisition, linguistic anthropology, language policy, and linguistic or language rights.