Young adults transgressing language and identity in Bangladesh
Shaila Sultana | University of Dhaka and University of Technology, Sydney
This paper contributes to a recent development in Applied Linguistics that encourages research from trans- approaches. Drawing on the results of an ethnographic research project carried out in a university of Bangladesh. It is illustrated how young adults actively and reflexively use a mixture of codes, modes, genres, and popular cultural texts in their language practices within the historical and spatial realities of their lives. The paper shows that the interpretive capacity of heteroglossia increases when complemented by an understanding derived from transgressive approaches to language. The paper proposes a reconceptualised version of heteroglossia, namely transglossia, which explores the fixity and fluidity of language in the 21th Century. On the one hand, transglossia is a theoretical framework that addresses the transcendence and transformation of meaning in heteroglossic voices. On the other hand, a transglossic framework untangles the social, historical, political, ideological, and spatial realities within which voices emerge. Overall, it is suggested that transglossia and a transglossic framework can provide us with an understanding of language that notions such as code-mixing or code-switching or any language-centric analysis fail to unveil.
2019. Language crossing of young adults in Bangladesh. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 14:4 ► pp. 352 ff.
Sultana, Shaila
2021. Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) or Surveillance? Panopticism and Higher Education in Bangladesh. In Emergency Remote Teaching and Beyond, ► pp. 341 ff.
Sultana, Shaila
2022. Young professional Bangladeshi women with rebel bones: trans-approaches to language and identity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development► pp. 1 ff.
2017. Popular Culture in Transglossic Language Practices of Young Adults. International Multilingual Research Journal 11:2 ► pp. 67 ff.
Sultana, Shaila & Sender Dovchin
2021. Relocalization in digital language practices of university students in Asian peripheries: Critical awareness in a language classroom. Linguistics and Education 62 ► pp. 100752 ff.
Sultana, Shaila & Dariush Izadi
2022. Editorial. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:2 ► pp. 127 ff.
Tebaldi, Catherine
2023. Privatizing creation: neoliberal creativity in the language classroom. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies► pp. 1 ff.
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