Saint-Georges Ingrid de, Weber Jean-Jacques. Multilingualism and Multimodality: Current Challenges for Educational Studies

Sense Publishers, 2013. — 207 p.The volume brings together contributions from renowned scholars in the field of interaction, social semiotics and discourse analysis. It highlights some of the varied educational challenges resulting from two contemporary phenomena: on the one hand, the new dimensions of social, cultural and linguistic diversity arising out of unprecedented migration and mobility patterns; and, on the other hand, the increased visibility of technology (old and new) both in schools and outside them. It identifies and explores the new questions and terrains that can and must be explored in this context.