Voices From the Field: Identity, Language, and Power in Multilingual Research Settings

This introduction situates the theme of this special issue across several disciplines where there is a growing body of literature, critique, and research on critical reflexivity and reflection of being in the field. The articles explore issues of identity, language, power, and positionality by and of the researcher in multilingual fields in Canada, Spain, China, and the United States. Through an examination of pre-, in-, and post-field experiences, the articles in this special issue focus diverse “methodological rich points” (Hornberger, 2006 Hornberger, N. 2006. “Negotiating methodological rich points in applied linguistics research: An ethnographer's view”. In Inference and generalizability in applied linguistics: Multiple perspectives, Edited by: Chalhoub-Deville, M., Chapelle, C. and Duff, P. 221–240. Amsterdam, , the Netherlands: John Benjamins. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], p. 221) in relation to the politics of “being in the field” when researching multilingual practices across transnational spaces.