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Translingual practice : global Englishes and cosmopolitan relations / Suresh Canagarajah

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013Description: 216 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 978-0-415-68398-2
  • 978-0-415-68400-2 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.446 23
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing translingual practice -- 3. Recovering translingual practices -- 4. English as translingual -- 5. Translingual negotiation strategies -- 6. Pluralizing academic writing -- 7. Negotiating translingual literacy -- 8. Reconfiguring translocal spaces -- 9. Developing performative competence -- 10. Toward a dialogical cosmopolitanism.
Summary: This book 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. The author 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing translingual practice -- 3. Recovering translingual practices -- 4. English as translingual -- 5. Translingual negotiation strategies -- 6. Pluralizing academic writing -- 7. Negotiating translingual literacy -- 8. Reconfiguring translocal spaces -- 9. Developing performative competence -- 10. Toward a dialogical cosmopolitanism.

This book 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. The author 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.

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