Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging

Jeff MacSwan is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the University of Maryland, USA. He is also Professor of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and affiliate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, the Center for the Advanced Study of Language, and the Maryland Language Science Center. His research focuses on the linguistic study of bilingualism and codeswitching (or language alternation), and its implications for theories about the role of language in educational settings for multilingual students.

• ContributorsPreface: Jeff MacSwanChapter 1. Jeff MacSwan: Introduction: Deconstructivism – A Reader’s GuidePart 1: Inter-speaker Language VariationChapter 2. Vivian Cook: Multi-competence and Translanguaging Chapter 3. James Paul Gee: Experience Coding and Linguistic VariationPart 2: CodeswitchingChapter 4. Jeff MacSwan: Codeswitching, Translanguaging and Bilingual GrammarChapter 5. Peter Auer: 'Translanguaging' or 'Doing Languages'? Multilingual Practices and the Notion of 'Codes'Chapter 6. Rakesh M. Bhatt & Agnes Bolonyai: Codeswitching and its Terminological Other – TranslanguagingPart 3: PsycholinguisticsChapter 7. Fred Genesee: Evidence for Differentiated Languages from Studies of Bilingual First Language AcquisitionChapter 8. Rebecca A. Marks, Teresa Satterfield and Ioulia Kovelman: Integrated Multilingualism and Bilingual Reading DevelopmentPart 4: Language PolicyChapter 9. Sheilah E. Nicholas and Teresa L. McCarty: To 'Think in a Different Way' – A Relational Paradigm for Indigenous Language RightsChapter 10. Terrence G. Wiley: The Grand Erasure: Whatever Happened to Bilingual Education and Language Minority Rights?Part 5: PracticeChapter 11. Joanna McPake and Diane J. Tedick: Translanguaging and Immersion Programs for Minoritized Languages at Risk of Disappearance: Developing a Research AgendaChapter 12. Christian J. Faltis: Understanding and Resisting Perfect Language and Eugenics-based Language Ideologies in Bilingual Teacher EducationStephen May: Afterword: The Multilingual Turn, Superdiversity and Translanguaging – The Rush from Heterodoxy to OrthodoxyIndex

Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging provides insightful answers to questions such as the following and more: If translanguaging entails that languages are mere theoretical constructs, why does the term suggest ‘crossing languages’? If they do not exist, why do speakers claim their languages index their community identities? The chapters are theoretically and empirically well-grounded, resulting in a thought-provoking and stimulating book.