Translanguaging as Everyday Practice
Translanguaging as Everyday Practice by Gerardo Mazzaferro is a softcover reprint of the original 1st edition published by Springer International Publishing on February 1, 2019. This 273-page volume presents empirically grounded perspectives on translanguaging, exploring its role as a locally situated, interactional accomplishment across various domains of social life, including education, workplaces, and urban linguistic landscapes.
Readers will find a collection of 14 chapters that delve into translanguaging as a communicative and discursive practice, highlighting its relational construction and strategic deployment in everyday encounters with language and cultural diversity. The contributions in this book reflect an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together scholars from diverse social, cultural, and geographical contexts to enhance the understanding of translanguaging. This volume aims to develop new theoretical and analytical tools for investigating how language practices are constructed, negotiated, and subverted by social actors.
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This volume offers empirically grounded perspectives on translanguaging as a locally situated, interactional accomplishment of practical action, and its significance within different domains of social life-school, education, diasporic families and communities, workplaces, urban linguistic landscapes, advertising practices and mental health centres – focusing on case studies from different countries and continents.
The 14 chapters contribute to the understanding of translanguaging as a communicative and discursive practice, which is relationally constructed and strategically deployed by individuals during everyday encounters with language and cultural diversity.
The contributions testify to translanguaging as an interdisciplinary and critical research paradigm by assembling scholars working on translanguaging from different perspectives, and a wide range of social, cultural, and geographical contexts.
This volume contributes to the further development of new theoretical and analytical tools for the investigation of translanguaging as everyday practice, and how and why language practices are constructed, negotiated, opposed or subverted by social actors.
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