Chronotopic translanguaging and the mobile languaging subject

Insights from an Algerian academic sojourner in the UK

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ID11293262
AuthorsHadjer Taibi (0000-0002-4720-5383, Manchester Metropolitan University , Manchester , UK), Khawla Badwan (0000-0003-1808-724X, Manchester Metropolitan University , Manchester , UK, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume41
Issue3
Pages281-298
Publication date2022-05-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMultilingua (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0167-8507 • E-ISSN: 1613-3684
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/multi-2021-0122
OpenAlexW3215526265
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited33

This study discusses the impact of spatial, temporal and virtual mobility on how mobile individuals talk about language in their world, and how they use language offline and online to communicate over time and across space. We introduce the notion of chronotopic translanguaging to highlight the significance of merging time and place in sociolinguistics. Doing so, we present a rather stretched understanding of time to include references to real time, online compressed time, linguistic ideologies and practices carried over time and challenged in recent times, as well as understanding time as an ecological factor. We interviewed Ekram, an Algerian academic sojourner, and observed her Facebook profile before and after coming to the UK. Our findings suggest that the networked lives of the participant beget fluid translanguaging practices that are constantly (re)negotiated depending to the ecology of interaction. Through entering and existing multiple time-space frames, Ekram found herself reunited with communicative repertoires she has not used for years. She also developed new relationships with other repertoires. This study concludes by emphasising the usefulness of chronotopic translanguaging as a conceptual tool that permits, and accounts for, the time-place influence on how mobile individuals deploy their communicative repertoires

Epistemology · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Temporality · Translanguaging · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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