Translinguistics

Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-32633-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Translinguistics represents a powerful alternative to conventional paradigms of language such as bilingualism and code-switching, which assume the compartmentalization of different 'languages' into fixed and arbitrary boundaries. Translinguistics more accurately reflects the fluid use of linguistic and semiotic resources in diverse communities.

This ground-breaking volume showcases work from leading as well as emerging scholars in sociolinguistics and other language-oriented disciplines and collectively explores and aims to reconcile the distinction between 'innovation' and 'ordinariness' in translinguistics. Features of this book include:

- 18 chapters from 28 scholars, representing a range of academic disciplines and institutions from 11 countries around the world;

- research on understudied communities and geographic contexts, including those of Latin America, South Asia, and Central Asia;

- several chapters devoted to the diversity of communication in digital contexts.

Edited by two of the most innovative scholars in the field, Translinguistics: Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness is essential reading for scholars and students interested in the question of multilingualism across a variety of subject areas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Jerry Won

Lee, Jerry

Dovchin, Sender

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Negotiating innovation and ordinariness

Part I: Translinguistics, space, and time

- The mundanity of metrolingual practices

- The ordinary semiotic landscape of an unordinary place: Spatiotemporal disjunctures in Incheon’s Chinatown

- A language socialization account of translinguistic mudes

- The ordinarization of translinguistic diversity in a ‘bilingual’ city

- Ordinary difference, extraordinary dispositions: Sustaining multilingualism in the writing classroom

Part II: The in/visibility of translinguistics

- Formatting online actions: #justsaying on Twitter

- The ordinariness of translinguistics in Indigenous Australia

- Hablar portuñol é como respirar: Translanguaging and the descent into the ordinary

- Translanguaging as a pedagogical resource in Italian primary schools: Making visible the ordinariness of multilingualism

- Reimagining bilingualism in late modern Puerto Rico: The ‘ordinariness’ of English language use among Latino adolescents

- The ordinariness of dialect translinguistics in an internally diverse global-city diasporic community

Part III: Translinguistics for whom?

- The everyday politics of translingualism as transgressive practice

- Tranßcripting: Playful subversion with Chinese characters

- Transmultilingualism: A remix on translingual communication

- ‘Bad hombres’, ‘aloha snackbar’, and ‘le cuck’: Mock translanguaging and the production of whiteness

- Invisible and ubiquitous: Translinguistic practices in metapragmatic discussions in an online English learning community

- On doing ‘being ordinary’: Everyday acts of speakers’ rights in polylingual families in Ukraine

- Ordinary English amongst Muslim communities in South and Central Asia

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jerry Won Lee is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Sender Dovchin is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.