L'Équilibriste: Tightrope Walker
- Chantal Crozet (RMIT University, Melbourne)
Abstract
In this auto-ethnographic account, I reflect on my journey as a multilingual academic researcher and writer, focusing primarily on my experiences with French and English which have become my first two languages. To a lesser extent, I also tell and reflect on my experience with Spanish and Sanskrit my third and fourth languages which are part of me too. I reflect on how I have lived and experienced the shaping of a hybrid academic identity, with and beyond two primary languages and cultures. My reflection shows that it is my relationship to language, or, for a better word, my positioning towards language, rather than my relationship to a particular language per se that ultimately matters in my experience of multilingualism.
Keywords: multilinguality, interculturalism, hybridity, renouncement, expansion
How to Cite:
Crozet, C., (2019) “L'Équilibriste: Tightrope Walker”, Critical Multilingualism Studies 7(1), 44–50.
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