Adopting Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Constructing A Multilingual’S Identity

• Authors: Magdaléna Bilá , Alena Kačmárová , Ingrida Vaňková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The cultural phenomenon of globalization has led to bilingualism and/or multilingualism (at least from a socio-pragmatic point of view). This brought to the attention of professionals the issue of the transformation of an identity from monolingual to multilingual. Due to the individual and at the same time social nature of the setting in which a man interacts, the study of the issue of personal identity has to be crossdisciplinary. We claim that in the course of this transformation the language-culture-identity interrelationship is vital and a multidisciplinary approach including (social) psychological, anthropological, philosophical, and discursive perspectives has to be undertaken. The paper approaches the issue of a multilingual’s identity through the prism of the four perspectives and in doing so offers justification for the above claim.

Keywords

EN

identity; multilingual; language; culture; psychology; anthropology; philosophy; discourse; sociality

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 430-442

Dates

published

2015-10-01

online

2015-10-06

Contributors

author

Magdaléna Bilá

• Institute of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Prešov University, Ul. 17. Novembra 1, 08078 Prešov, Slovakia

author

Alena Kačmárová

• Institute of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Prešov University, Ul. 17. Novembra 1, 08078 Prešov, Slovakia

author

Ingrida Vaňková

• Institute of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Prešov University, Ul. 17. Novembra 1, 08078 Prešov, Slovakia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/humaff-2015-0035