Publications
Publication details [#54817]
Moyer, Melissa G. 2011. What multilingualism? Agency and unintended consequences of multilingual practices in a Barcelona health clinic. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (5) : 1209–1221. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
Following Giddens (1984) on the role of agency, this study considers how institutional measures to embody multilingualism in a health clinic in the city of Barcelona, generate unintended implications for migrants who come into contact with the health system.