Suresh Canagarajah

List of John Benjamins publications for which Suresh Canagarajah plays a role.

Journal

Forms of immobility both limit unqualified human agency and enable diverse channels of mobility. In this sense, mobility and immobility work together. Certain philosophical movements such as Southern theories and disability studies treat constraints, sedentariness, and boundaries as needing to… read more
Sandbulte, Jade and Suresh Canagarajah 2022 Sojourner experiences and spatial repertoires: Space and positioning in the proficiency of an academic spouseTranslingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time, Sultana, Shaila and Dariush Izadi (eds.), pp. 198–218 | Article
Research on translingual repertoires has highlighted the diverse semiotic resources that individuals access in communication, but little research has considered how spatial factors permit or limit access to these resources. Furthermore, as translingual studies have predominantly focused on… read more
This chapter considers how multilingual students might learn to write in different genres for different audiences and write to learn different ways of exploring and representing knowledge by shuttling between languages. It illustrates this possibility by analyzing how an advanced scholar from Sri… read more
There has been a plurilingual tradition of communication in South Asia since precolonial times. Local scholars consider pluringualism as ‘natural’ to the ecology of this region. In plurilingualism, proficiency in languages is not conceptualized individually, with separate competencies developed… read more