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Straszer, Boglárka, BethAnne Paulsrud and Jenny Rosén, eds. 2022. Translanguaging in the age of mobility: European perspectives. Special issue of Multilingua 41 (3)
Publication type
Special issue
Publication language
English
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Abstract
This special issue offers different perspectives on translanguaging in an age of increased and shifting modes of mobility in diverse European contexts. Linguistic diversity has long been at the heart of European Union policies (e.g., Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union 2012); however, the surge of migration in Europe has resulted in new opportunities and challenges across public institutions, including schools as well as healthcare, the legal system, immigration services, and workplaces. Changing mobility patterns and increasing digitalization, including new patterns of communication that involve diverse languages and modalities, have impacted on people’s lives. Within increasingly normalized multilingual practices in the European context, with the “blurring [of] the lines between languages and nations” (Choudhury 2017), the notion of translanguaging offers a relevant perspective for understanding the linguistic, semiotic, and sociocultural aspects of ever-changing realities. The aim of this special issue is to illuminate how a translanguaging lens can be used to understand language practices in different European settings characterized by mobility.
Source : Based on editor’s introduction
Articles in this volume
Kahlin, Linda, Leelo Keevallik, Hedda Söderlundh and Matylda Weidner. Translanguaging as a resource for meaning-making at multilingual construction sites. 261–280
Taibi, Hadjer and Khawla Badwan. Chronotopic translanguaging and the mobile languaging subject: insights from an Algerian academic sojourner in the UK. 281–298
Duarte, Joana and Mirjam Guenther. Translanguaging pathways to higher education: a transition program for highly educated refugees. 299–319
Carbonara, Valentina. Multilingual education in an Italian public preschool: teachers and families among mobility processes and inclusive practices. 321–340