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Metrolingualism: fixity, fluidity and language in flux
Emi Otsuji,Alastair Pennycook +1 more
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The notion of metrolingualism as mentioned in this paper is a product of modern and often urban interaction, describing the ways in which people of different and mixed backgrounds use, play with and negotiate identities through language.Abstract:
By extending the notion of metroethnicity, this paper proposes the notion of metrolingualism, creative linguistic practices across borders of culture, history and politics. Metrolingualism gives us a way to move beyond current terms such as ‘multilingualism’ and ‘multiculturalism’. It is a product of modern and often urban interaction, describing the ways in which people of different and mixed backgrounds use, play with and negotiate identities through language. The focus is not so much on language systems as on languages as emergent from contexts of interaction. Looking at data from workplaces where metrolingual language use is common, we show how the use of both fixed and fluid linguistic and cultural identities is part of the process of language use. The notion of metrolingualism gives us ways of moving beyond common frameworks of language, providing insights into contemporary, urban language practices, and accommodating both fixity and fluidity in its approach to language use.read more
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The Linguistic Repertoire Revisited
TL;DR: The authors argue that poststructuralist approaches, exemplified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, add an exploration of previously neglected factors such as the power of categories or the significance of desire in language.
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Translanguaging and the Writing of Bilingual Learners
Patricia Velasco,Ofelia García +1 more
TL;DR: The authors make the case for using translanguaging in developing the academic writing of bilinguals. But they do not discuss the role of the pedagogy in the teaching of writing itself.
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The Multi/Plural Turn, Postcolonial Theory, and Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Complicities and Implications for Applied Linguistics
TL;DR: The authors examines the multi-plural trend by drawing on some critiques of postcolonial theory and neoliberal ideologies and proposes an increased attention to power and inequalities as well as collective efforts to resist the neoliberal academic culture underlying the multiplural turn.
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Theorizing and Enacting Translanguaging for Social Justice
Ofelia García,Camila Leiva +1 more
TL;DR: Translanguaging as pedagogy holds the promise of developing US Latinos who use their dynamic bilingualism in ways that would enable them to fully participate in US society and meet the global, national, and social needs of a multilingual future as discussed by the authors.
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Translanguaging and semiotic assemblages
TL;DR: This paper used spatial repertoires and assemblages to understand how different trajectories of people, semiotic resources and objects meet at particular moments and places, and thus helps us to see the importance of things, the consequences of the body, and the significance of place alongside the meanings of linguistic resources.
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Crossing: Language and Ethnicity among Adolescents
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