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Author:   Dick Smakman ,  Jemima Asabea Anderson ,  Gladys Nyarko Ansah
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.750kg
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9781032535432

ISBN 10:   1032535431
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   25 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part A: 1. Wellbeing and Multilingualism 2. Multilingualism and Happiness 3. The Wellbeing of Being Multilingual in Bulgaria Part B: 4. Multilingualism in Ghana’s Healthcare. A Neglected Barrier 5. Multilingualism, Happiness and Wellbeing in South-Western Nigeria and Greater Accra, Ghana 6. Multilingualism and Wellbeing: Reflections from Ghana 7. Multilingualism as a Tool for Destressing–– Evidence from Northern Ghana Part C: 8. The Impact of State Language Knowledge on Georgian Ethnic Minority Student’s Wellbeing 9. Conceptualization of wellbeing: kuleana ‘responsibility’, revitalization, and reclamation of Hawaiian language 10. Multilingualism and Social Wellbeing - The Sierra Leone ‘wan pot’1: The official, the lingua franca and the indigenous 11. The language chameleon: Between happiness and worries about being bilingual in Catalonia Part D: 12. Linguistic wellbeing in multi-ethnic The Hague 13. Rethinking migrants’ wellbeing in Germany through a multilingual lens 14. Multilingualism and Economic Wellbeing of Female Migrants in Accra 15. Verfremdung Part E: 16. Sweet sounds of melancholy. Brabantish as a language of culture 17. Multilingualism and Wellbeing in Japan. The Case of Yomitan Village in Okinawa 18. The Relation between Degree of Multilingualism and Experiences of Wellbeing in Catalonia 19. Multilingualism and Wellbeing in Timor-Leste

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'The volume Multilingualism and Wellbeing, edited by Dick Smakman, Jemima Anderson, and Gladys Ansah, offers a refreshing new outlook on multilingualism by focusing on its psychological and emotional impact, and by positively associating it with the well-being of multilingual speakers. It provides a new perspective in the study of multilingualism, moving beyond the well-trodden paths of research into language choice, identity construction, power, and functionality. This is definitely a book I would like students in my Sociolinguistics class to read.' Nadia Shalaby, Professor of Linguistics, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt 'This book is a ground-breaking contribution to multilingualism research, moving beyond questions of social identity and towards the felt experience of language. Multilingualism, the authors argue, is essential for the well-being of speakers and is thus closely linked to affect. The message is as simple as it is important: multilingualism makes us happy and brings us pleasure.' Ana Deumert, Professor of Linguistics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Author Information

Dick Smakman works as a Sociolinguist for Leiden University, the Netherlands. This is his third co- edited volume, in which special attention is given to contributions on lesser- known sociolinguistic contexts, particularly those outside the Anglo- Western realm. The first two volumes in this series were Globalising Sociolinguistics: Challenging and Expanding Theory (Smakman & Heinrich, Routledge, 2015) and Urban Sociolinguistics: The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience (Smakman & Heinrich, Routledge, 2018). Jemima Asabea Anderson is a Sociolinguist at the Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon. Gladys Nyarko Ansah works as Associate Professor with the Department of English, University of Ghana. She is a cognitive/applied linguist with many research interests including the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. She co-authored a chapter on “A sociolinguistic mosaic of West Africa: challenges and prospects” in Smakman and Heinrich’s 2015 book Globalising Sociolinguistics: Challenges and Expanding Theory.

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