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· 2013· Book chapter

Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education

Ofelia Garcı́a, Li Wei

Short summary

Translanguaging, a new linguistic concept, transforms understandings of language, bilingualism, and education by impacting semiotic systems, speaker subjectivities, and social structures.

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Key points

  • Introduces the linguistic concept of 'Translanguaging'.
  • Explores its impact on understandings of language, bilingualism, and education.
  • Highlights its potential to transform semiotic systems and speaker subjectivities.
  • Suggests translanguaging can also alter social structures.

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Abstract

© Ofelia García and Li Wei 2014. All rights reserved. This book addresses how the new linguistic concept of ‘Translanguaging’ has contributed to our understandings of language, bilingualism and education, with potential to transform not only semiotic systems and speaker subjectivities, but also social structures.

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Field: Literature and Literary Theory

Literature and Literary TheoryArts and Humanities