Translinguistics: Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138326321 ISBN 13: 9781138326323

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138326321
• ISBN 13: 9781138326323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Lee Jerry, Dovchin Sender