translingualism

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noun

The phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nountranslingualism (usually uncountable, plural translingualisms)

plural translingualisms

  1. uncountableusuallyhuman sciencesThe phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language.

    Essentially, translingualism questions the idea that only one type of English is acceptable in academic writing.

    2019, Paula Rawlins and Emma Catherine Perry, “Teaching Translingual: Lesson plans and suggested writing assignments for exploring code meshing and linguistic difference”, in University of Georgia, page 2
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    The idea of translingualism, as it is often called in composition studies or translanguaging as it is often called in linguistics, rejects the monolingual norm.

    2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word
  2. countableusuallyhuman sciencesA specific phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language, such as a term or symbol used in more than one language.

    This third approach can be illustrated by one of the most frequently-observed of Okara's translingualisms, the transposition into English of Ijo word-order.

    1990, Research in African Literatures, volume 21, number 3, page 84

Origin

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