Translingual Practices: Playfulness and Precariousness (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact)

Source: Cambridge University Press

Edited by Sender Dovchin, Curtin University, Perth, Rhonda Oliver, Curtin University, Perth, Li Wei, Institute of Education, University of London

Bringing together work from a team of international scholars, this groundbreaking book explores how language users employ translingualism playfully, while, at the same time, negotiating precarious situations, such as the breaking of social norms and subverting sociolinguistic boundaries.

It includes a range of ethnographic studies from around the globe, to provide us with insights into the everyday lives of language users and learners and their lived experiences, and how these interact in translingual practices.

A number of mixed methodological frameworks are included to study language users’ behaviours, experiences and actions, cover the complexity of language evolutionary processes, and ultimately show that precarity is as fundamental to translingualism as playfulness.

It points to a future research direction in which research should be pragmatically applied into real pedagogical actions by revealing the sociolinguistic realities of translingual users, fundamentally addressing broader issues of racism, social injustice, language activism and other human rights issues.

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Staff Profile: Dr. Sender Dovchin, Curtin University

Associate Professor, Dr. Sender Dovchin is currently a Principal Research Fellow and Director of Research at the School of Education, Curtin University. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the Centre for Language Research, University of Aizu, Japan. Sender does research in Sociolinguistics.

About

I am a Professor, Senior Principal Research Fellow at the School of Education, Curtin University and a Discovery Early Career Research Fellow of an Australian Research Council. Previously, I was an Associate Professor at the University of Aizu, Japan.

I have also been awarded Young Scientist – KAKENHI – by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Government of Japan.

Currently, I’m an Editor in Chief of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics.

I have authored numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as Applied Linguistics, Journal of Sociolinguistics, System, TESOL Quarterly, International Journal of Multilingualism, World Englishes, Asian Englishes, English Today, International Journal Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, International Journal of Multilingual Research, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, International Journal Bilingualism, Ethnicities, Multilingua, Linguistics and Education, Translanguaging and Translation in Multilingual Contexts and Inner Asia.

My first book ‘Language, Media and Globalization in the Periphery’ was published in 2018 by Routledge.My second book, ‘Language, Social Media and Ideologies’ was published by Springer in 2020.I have co-authored a book with Alastair Pennycook and Shaila Sultana, ‘Popular Culture, Voice, and Linguistic Diversity’, which was published in 2017 by Springer.

I have (co)-edited several edited volumes such as ‘Translinguistics: Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness’ with Jerry Lee published by Routledge in 2020. ‘The Critical Inquiries of Sociolinguistics of Globalization’ with Tyler Barrett was published by Multilingual Matters in 2019. Digital Communication, Linguistic Diversity and Education was published by Peter Lang, Oxford in 2020.

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