Z. Moualla

Language and Identity Construction among Iraqi Diaspora Communities: A Theoretical Perspective and an Integrative Sociolinguistic Framework of Investment, Translanguaging, and Heritage Language Maintenance in a Fragmented Diaspora

Migration is not just a change of location for a language community, but a reorganization of the nature of that community's language. This paper presents an integrative theoretical approach to the issue of language use in the construction, negotiation and contestation of identity of the Iraqis in diaspora, a group of p...