Translanguaging and semiotic assemblages

This paper asks what translanguaging could start to look like if it incorporated an expanded version of language and questioned not only to the borders between languages but also the borders between semiotic modes. Developing the idea of spatial repertoires and assemblages, and looking at data from...

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Published in:International journal of multilingualism Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 269 - 282
Main Author: Pennycook, Alastair
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Abingdon Routledge 03.07.2017
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:
assemblages
Audio Equipment
Bilingualism
Borders
Code Switching (Language)
Correlation
Discourse Analysis
distributed language
English (Second Language)
Ethnography
Food
Foreign Countries
Grasping
Immigrants
Indo European Languages
Intercultural Communication
Language choice
Language Research
Language Usage
Languages
linguistic landscapes
Linguistic Theory
Meaning
metrolingualism
Ownership
Purchasing
Retailing
Second Language Learning
Semiotics
Semitic Languages
spatial repertoire
Suburbs
Translanguaging
Australia
Bangladesh
ISSN:1479-0718, 1747-7530
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Summary:This paper asks what translanguaging could start to look like if it incorporated an expanded version of language and questioned not only to the borders between languages but also the borders between semiotic modes. Developing the idea of spatial repertoires and assemblages, and looking at data from a Bangladeshi-owned corner shop, this paper suggests on the one hand that it is important to include a wide range of semiotic possibilities in any analysis. On the other hand, however, we cannot merely add more semiotic items to our translinguistic inventories, but need instead to seek out a way of grasping the relationships among a range of forms of semiosis. The notion of assemblages allows for an understanding of how different trajectories of people, semiotic resources and objects meet at particular moments and places, and thus helps us to see the importance of things, the consequences of the body, and the significance of place alongside the meanings of linguistic resources.
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ISSN:1479-0718
1747-7530
DOI:10.1080/14790718.2017.1315810