Researching Language in Superdiverse Urban Contexts

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RESEARCHING MULTILINGUALLY

Series Editors: Prue Holmes, Durham University, UK,Richard Fay, University of Manchester, UK and Jane Andrews, University of the West of England, UK

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Several questions (…) emerge: questions of power (between researcher and researched in negotiating language choices); questions of inclusion (which participants and which researchers get included in which research processes); questions of meaning-making (particularly concerning the role of mediators and translators as they construct meaning through and across languages); and questions of institutional constraints (where policies, practices, and preferences determine how researchers – and in some instances, which researchers – report and represent the researched). (Holmes et al., 2013)

These questions are reflected upon in different ways throughout the chapters of this volume. Most (for example, Gaiser & Matras; Karatsareas; Paffey; McAuley & Carruthers; Wells, this volume) explicitly address the issue of what language(s) they have conducted their research in and why. This often leads to them considering the power relationship the choice of interview language might signify (Karatsareas, this volume). Others, particularly Bradley and Simpson, and Paffey (this volume), consider these power relationships as an opportunity to give their informants a voice. At the same time we should heed the comments of Patiño-Santos (2020: 216) when she writes,

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