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.