Translanguaging in mobility

Citation

Blackledge A & Creese A (2017) Translanguaging in mobility. In: Canagarajah S (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 31-46. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315754512

Abstract
In order to understand social life in the 21st century we need to understand mobility, and understanding mobility requires attention to the movement of linguistic and other semi-otic resources. In this chapter we ask what we mean by ‘mobility’, and consider mobility as movement in and of geographical and historical locations. To give us purchase on the movement of people and linguistic and semiotic resources in time and space, we develop an understanding of translanguaging which views mobility in relation to trajectories of human emergence or ideological becoming. We can make such processes visible through attention to communicative repertoire and voice.

Keywords
Communication studies; development studies; geography; language & literature; politics and international relations;

Journal
The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language