Literacy As Translingual Practice Between Communities and Classrooms

Name: Literacy As Translingual Practice Between Communities and Classrooms
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ISBN: 9780415524674

ISBN-10: 0415524679

ISBN-13: 9780415524674

Edition: 2013

Authors: Suresh Canagarajah

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In the context of migration, transnational economic and cultural relations, digital communication, and globalism, increasing contact is taking place between languages and communities. In these contact zones new genres of writing and new textual conventions are emerging that go beyond traditional dichotomies that treat languages as separated from each other, and texts and writers as determined by one language or the other. The term translingualhighlights the reality that people always shuttle across languages, communicate in hybrid languages and, thus, enjoy multilingual competence. Pushing forward a translingual orientation to writing—one that is in tune with the new literacies and…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction




Premises



Global and Local Communicative Networks and Implications for Literacy




Translingual Literacy and Matters of Agency




Rhetorical Activities of Global Citizens




Redefining Indigenous Rhetoric: From Places of Origin to Translingual Spaces of Interdependence-in-Difference




Community Practices



Neither Asian nor American: The Creolization of Asian American Rhetoric




Confronting the Wounds of Colonialism Through Words




The Cherokee Syllabary: The Evolution of Writing in Sequoyan




Hi-em, Hi $$ or $$ Hi? Translingual Practices From Lebanon and Mainstream Literacy Education




Translingual Practices in Kenyan Hiphop: Pedagogical Implications




Code-Meshing Orientations



Pedagogical and Socio-Political Implications of Code-Meshing in Classrooms: Some Considerations for a Translingual Orientation to Writing




It's the Wild West Out There: A New Linguistic Frontier in U.S. College Composition




Keep Code-Meshing




Research Directions



Negotiation, Translinguality, and Cross-Cultural Writing Research in a New Composition Era




Writing Across Languages: Developing Rhetorical Attunement




Research on Multilingual Writers in the Disciplines: The Case of Biomedical Engineering




Transnational Translingual Literacy Sponsors and Gateways on the United States-Mexico Borderlands




Pedagogical Applications



Literacy Brokers in the Contact Zone, Year 1: The Crowded Safe House




Moving Out of the Monolingual Comfort Zone and Into the Multilingual World: An Exercise for the Writing Classroom




When "Second" Comes First- $$ to the Eye? Sociolinguistic Hybridity in Professional Writing




"And Yea I'm Venting, But Hey I'm Writing Isn't I": A Translingual Approach to Error in a Multilingual Context




Afterword: Reflections From the Ground Floor



List of Contributors


Index