Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 / Amerlia Tseng -- 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

"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"-- Provided by publisher

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