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Meaning Making in the Periphery
Edited by Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes and Mike Baynham
[AILA Review 30] 2017
► pp. 144–166

On the relationality of centers, peripheries and interactional regimes

Translanguaging in a community interpreting event

| University of Leeds, England
| University of Leeds, England

In this paper we discuss a multilingual interactional event that involves both interpreting and literacy work, part of a large scale study on translanguaging in superdiverse urban settings. [1] 1 In the first part of the interaction, the center/periphery dynamic is played out in what might be called “contested translanguaging” between Standard Czech and a Slovak influenced dialect of Czech, in the second part in contested translanguaging between Standard Czech and English. The center/periphery dynamic, we argue can be understood in terms of attraction/repulsion. The translanguaging involves a struggle over both meaning and form in which some participants lose out. The second part of the interaction is a dramatic reverse in what is treated as central and dominant in the first part, suggesting a hierarchical ordering of interactional regimes. We will argue for the necessity of taking into account these hierarchically ordered interactional regimes and the linguistic ideologies associated with them in the shaping of translanguaging practices.

Keywords: center/periphery, translanguaging, community interepreting, interactional regimes, language ideologies
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Center/periphery, periphery/center
  • Literacy events/interpreting events: Locally situated and mobile
  • Translanguaging as constitutive of the interpreting and advocacy event
  • Contextualizing the interactional event
  • Interactional regimes in the interpreting event
  • Transforming non standard Czech to standard written Czech
  • Translanguaging, interactional regimes and language ideologies
  • Re-casting the power of attorney letter in English
  • Competing interactional regimes: The relationality of center/periphery
  • Direction of travel: Mobile subjects/mobile texts
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
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Published online: 15 January 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.00007.bay
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