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Polylingual Languaging Around and Among Children and Adolescents
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For example, the authors points out that while some speakers think languages should be kept apart, others combine three, four, or more different sets of features (i.e. so-called "languages") in their linguistic production.Abstract:
The uniquely human capacity of using arbitrary signs to transfer concept and experience over great distances in time and place is what we call language. We use language with a purpose, and we use whatever features are at our disposal to achieve our ends, regardless of the fact that some speakers think that certain features should be held together and not used in combination with certain other features. The phenomenon of language is not necessarily a construction, and while all individual languages are constructed, it is not possible to clearly delimit them from each other. The crucial phenomenon is language, not any specific language. While some Some speakers think languages should be kept apart, others combine three, four, or more different sets of features (i.e. so-called ‘languages’) in their linguistic production. This is characteristic of polylingualism (where multilingualism is characterised by the knowledge of several separate languages). These speakers do not choose their features randoml...read more
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Translanguaging in the classroom: Emerging issues for research and pedagogy
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Metrolingualism: fixity, fluidity and language in flux
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TL;DR: 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.
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Translanguaging: developing its conceptualisation and contextualisation
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The Linguistic Repertoire Revisited
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Repositioning English and multilingualism in English as a Lingua Franca
TL;DR: This paper argued that ELF is in need of further retheorisation in respect of its essentially multilingual nature, a nature that has always been present in ELF theory and empirical work, but which, I believe, has not so far been sufficiently foregrounded.
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