Translinguistics Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness

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.

List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Negotiating innovation and ordinariness - Jerry Won Lee & Sender Dovchin Part 1: Translinguistics, space, and time Mundane metrolingualism - Alastair Pennycook & Emi Otsuji The ordinary semiotic landscape of an unordinary place: Spatiotemporal disjunctures in Incheon’s Chinatown - Jerry Won Lee & Jackie Jia Lou A language socialization account of translinguistic mudes - Anna Ghimenton & Kathleen C. Riley The ordinarization of translinguistic diversity in a ‘bilingual’ city - Claudio Scarvaglieri Ordinary difference, extraordinary dispositions: Sustaining multilingualism in the writing classroom - Sara P. Alvarez & Eunjeong Lee Part 2: The in/visibility of translinguistics Formatting online actions: #justsaying on Twitter - Jan Blommaert The ordinariness of translinguistics in Indigenous Australia - Jill Vaughan Hablar portuñol é como respirar: Translanguaging and the descent into the ordinary – Daniel Silva & Adriana Lopes Translanguaging as a pedagogical resource in Italian primary schools: Making visible the ordinariness of multilingualism - Andrea Scibetta & Valentina Carbonara Reimagining bilingualism in late modern Puerto Rico: The ‘ordinariness’ of English language use among Latino adolescents - Katherine Morales Lugo The ordinariness of dialect translinguistics in an internally diverse global-city diasporic community - Amelia Tseng Part 3: Translinguistics for whom? The everyday politics of translingualism as transgressive practice - Suresh Canagarajah & Sender Dovchin Tranßcripting: Playful subversion with Chinese characters - Li Wei & Zhu Hua Transmultilingualism: A remix on translingual communication - Shanleigh Roux & Quentin Williams ‘Bad hombres’, ‘aloha snackbar’, and ‘le cuck’: Mock translanguaging and the production of whiteness - Catherine Tebaldi Invisible and ubiquitous: Translinguistic practices in metapragmatic discussions in an online English learning community - Rayoung Song On doing ‘being ordinary’: Everyday acts of speakers’ rights in polylingual families in Ukraine - Alla V. Tovares Ordinary English amongst Muslim communities in South and Central Asia - Brook Bolander & Shaila Sultana Index

Jerry Won Lee is an Associate Professor at theUniversity of California, Irvine, USA. Sender Dovchin is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.