Locating Translingualism

Jerry Won Lee is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of The Politics of Translingualism (Routledge, 2018), co-editor of Translinguistics (Routledge, 2019), and editor of The Sociolinguistics of Global Asias (Routledge, 2022).

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; A Note on the Text; Introduction; I.1. Language, Culture, and Caterpillars from a Bird's Eye View; I.2. Translingualism in/as Space; I.3. Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Difference; I.4. Semiotic Precarity; I.5. Book Overview; 1. Translingualism and the Locations of Culture; 1.1. Where is Culture?; 1.2. Translingual Inversion; 1.3. National Imaginaries and Representational Precarity; 1.4. National Imaginaries and the Logic of Seriality; 1.5. Translingual Inversion and the Location of National Imaginaries; 2. Locating Global Korea; 2.1. Korea as Ice Hockey Team; 2.2. Korea as Nation as Discourse; 2.3. Global Korea; Or, Korea Globally; 2.4. Locating the Locations of Global Korea; 2.5. Conclusion: Korea via the Globe; 3. Encountering the Unfamiliar: Languaging Culture; 3.1. Unfamiliar Language; 3.2. Korea as Language?; 3.3. Weird Language; 3.4. Weird Translations; 3.5. Weird Transliterations; 3.6. Weird Translingualizations; 3.7. Conclusion: Negotiable Language, Locatable Language; 4. Visible Nation: Scaling Culture; 4.1. Street Fighter II as Nations and Nationalism; 4.2. Scale as Culture; 4.3. Culture as Color: How Red Became Korean; 4.4. Koryo as Chronotope of Korea; 4.5. Culture as Sample Image: Disputed Territory as Caricatural Geography; 4.6. Conclusion: Is It Possible to See the Nation?; 5. Semiotic Excess: Tracing Culture; 5.1. Cool Story, Hanguk; 5.2. Unexpectedness and the Traces of Culture; 5.3. KoreatownTM; 5.4. X-Modernity; 5.5. Global Korea as Toiletscape; 5.6. Conclusion: Korea as Trace; Conclusion: More Locations of Culture; C.1. Modular Imaginaries; Or, Citizen Sociolinguistics as a Human Right; C.2. Departing Thoughts; References; Index.

'Locating Translingualism is a long-awaited work from a venerable thinker, teacher, and critic. From the book's very first paragraph – about a so-called 'bird's eye view' upon global language(s) – Jerry Lee pushes us beyond received notions and easy resolutions, and his topic demands no less. With deft intellectual agility and a defiant critical energy, Lee expands on his previous monographs, striding fearlessly through an arena of linguistic practice that most applied linguists and linguistic anthropologists would have difficulty exploring without his careful, evidence-driven guidance. Read it slowly, cover to cover, ready to take notes and change your mind on hundreds of topics, large and small.' David Gramling, Professor of German Studies, University of British Columbia