multilingual matters
Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications Ltd is an independent academic
book publisher based in Bristol, UK. We were founded in the early 1980s by the
Grover family: Mike and Marjukka, plus their two sons Tommi and Sami, who were
young children at the time. Tommi has been Managing Director since 2008, when we
sold our journals to focus on our book business, and you can read about the
current MM/CVP team on this page. The first books we published were under the
Multilingual Matters imprint and our original aim was to publish positive
research on bilingualism, a topic close to the heart of the Grover family, who
were bringing up their children in English and Finnish (Marjukka has kindly
written a piece about mother tongues on our blog here). Our mission quickly
expanded to include publishing in the fields of applied linguistics, literacy
education, multicultural education, immigrant language learning and second
language acquisition. We strongly believe that multilingualism is a positive for
everyone, not just the privileged few. We publish books at the cutting-edge of
research on topics ranging from reclaiming, revitalising and decolonising
minority languages to contemporary approaches to second, foreign, bilingual and
other forms of language education. Everyone has the right to speak the languages
that are important to them and our goal is to publish books which promote this,
particularly in the case of migrants, minorities and indigenous people.
