Translanguaging as Everyday Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. Translanguaging as Everyday Practice. An Introduction

   • Gerardo Mazzaferro

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3. Translanguaging in a Monoglot Context: Children Mobilising and (Re) Positioning their Multilingual Repertoires as Resources for Learning

   • Pinky Makoe

   Pages 13-30

4. Translanguaging as Playful Subversion of a Monolingual Norm in the Classroom

   • Teppo Jakonen, Tamás Péter Szabó, Petteri Laihonen

   Pages 31-48

5. “We Know the Same Languages and Then We Can Mix Them”: A Child’s Perspectives on Everyday Translanguaging in the Family

   • BethAnne Paulsrud, Boglárka Straszer

   Pages 49-68

6. Translanguaging in a Birmingham Chinese Complementary School: Ideology and Identity

   • Jing Huang

   Pages 69-86

7. Language Maintenance and Shift Within New Linguistic Minorities in Italy: A Translanguaging Perspective

   • Gerardo Mazzaferro

   Pages 87-106

8. Translanguaging: A Vital Resource for First Nations Peoples

   • Donna Starks

   Pages 107-124

9. Translanguaging and Hybrid Spaces: Boundaries and beyond in North Central Arnhem Land

   • Jill Vaughan

   Pages 125-148

10. Translingual Practices in Global Business. A Longitudinal Study of a Professional Communicative Repertoire

    • Tiina Räisänen

    Pages 149-174

11. Communicative Repertoires in Advertising Space in Lesotho: The Translanguaging and Commodification Nexus

    • Henry Amo Mensah

    Pages 175-194

12. Translanguaging and Collaborative Creative Practices: Communication and Performance in an Intercultural Theatre Group

    • Naomi Wells

    Pages 195-213

13. Translanguaging and Language Creativity in Drama Staging

    • Joëlle Aden, Maria Pavlovskaya

    Pages 215-233

14. Translanguaging and the Negotiation of Meaning. Multilingual Signage in a Swiss Linguistic Landscape

    • Edina Krompák, Stephan Meyer

    Pages 235-255

15. What Shapes Everyday Translanguaging? Insights from a Global Mental Health Project in Northern Uganda

    • Jane Andrews, Richard Fay, Ross White

    Pages 257-273

This volume offers empirically grounded perspectives on translanguaging as a locally situated, interactional accomplishment of practical action, and its significance within different domains of social life-school, education, diasporic families and communities, workplaces, urban linguistic landscapes, advertising practices and mental health centres – focusing on case studies from different countries and continents.  

The 14 chapters contribute to the understanding of translanguaging as a communicative and discursive practice, which is relationally constructed and strategically deployed by individuals during everyday encounters with language and cultural diversity. 

The contributions testify to translanguaging as an interdisciplinary and critical research paradigm by assembling scholars working on translanguaging from different perspectives, and a wide range of social, cultural, and geographical contexts.

This volume contributes to the further development of new theoretical and analytical tools for the investigation of translanguaging as everyday practice, and how and why language practices are constructed, negotiated, opposed or subverted by social actors.

• Translanguaging practices
• Communicative repertoire and professional migration
• Translanguaging as transformative social practice
• Culturally and linguistically diverse workplaces
• Heteroglossia, ideology and identity
• Multilingual repertoires
• Linguistic landscapes

“This book is a welcome addition to the evolving literature on translanguaging. Designed deliberately to capture translanguaging as an everyday social practice, the editor deliberately invites researchers working in different domains at varying research sites and diverse data sets to address the question, how translanguaging pervades verbal communication between plurilingual members of specific ethnolinguistic or professional groups regardless of their theoretical persuasions. While the research sites are mostly in Europe, the linguistic (plurilingual) repertoires of the subjects exemplified and reported are heterogeneous, covering conventionally labeled languages, First Nations languages and heritage languages in in-migration as well as ethnic minority settings like Canada and Australia.” (David C.S. Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

“This new exciting volume adds to the growing body of literature on Translanuaging with detailed and critical accounts of the dynamic communicative practices of multilingual languages users in diverse settings. The geographical coverage is impressive. It includes a wide variety of communicative domains and styles from education to business, from policy to creative arts. The implications of the studies for theory and practice will be far-reaching and long-lasting.” (Li Wei, Chair of Applied Linguistics, University College London, UK)

• Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

  Gerardo Mazzaferro

Gerardo Mazzaferro is a Researcher in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Turin (Italy). He has carried out research in several fields of the sociolinguistics of English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of immigration. He taught, published and took part in numerous international conferences on all these subjects. He is the organizer of the International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration. His current research includes the study of language and immigration in Italy.

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