Multilingual Identities in a Global City: London Stories

Language and Globalization

by David Block

This book begins with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities. It then turns to four detailed case studies and through them explores the ambivalent and multi-layered identitites of individuals who have crossed geographical and psychological borders during the course of their lifetimes and settled in London.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005