Translingual Practice as Spatial Repertoires: Expanding the Paradigm beyond Structuralist Orientations

• Autores: Suresh Canagarajah
• Localización: Applied linguistics, ISSN 0142-6001, Vol. 39, Nº 1, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Considering ‘Trans-’ Perspectives in Language Theories and Practices), págs. 31-54
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The expanding orientations to translingualism are motivated by a gradual shift from the structuralist paradigm that has been treated as foundational in modern linguistics. Structuralism encouraged scholars to consider language, like other social constructs, as organized as a self-defining and closed structure, set apart from spatiotemporal ‘context’ (which included diverse considerations such as history, geography, politics, and society). Translingualism calls for a shift from these structuralist assumptions to consider more mobile, expansive, situated, and holistic practices. In this article, I articulate how a poststructuralist paradigm might help us theorize and practice translingualism according to a spatial orientation that embeds communication in space and time, considering all resources as working together as an assemblage in shaping meaning. I illustrate from my ongoing research with international STEM scholars in a Midwestern American university to theorize how translingualism will redefine the role of constructs such as language, non-verbal artifacts, and context in communicative proficiency.