Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations

Suresh Canagarajah

ISBN 10: 041568398X / ISBN 13: 9780415683982

Published by Routledge 2012-11-30, 2012

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Title: Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and ...

Publisher: Routledge 2012-11-30

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Winner of the AAAL Book Award 2015
Winner of the Modern Language Association's Thirty-Third Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize
Winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2014

Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations introduces a new way of looking at the use of English within a global context. Challenging traditional approaches in second language acquisition and English language teaching, this book incorporates recent advances in multilingual studies, sociolinguistics, and new literacy studies to articulate a new perspective on this area. Canagarajah argues that multilinguals merge their own languages and values into English, which opens up various negotiation strategies that help them decode other unique varieties of English and construct new norms.

Incisive and groundbreaking, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in multilingualism, world Englishes and intercultural communication.

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Suresh Canagarajah