Thinking about languages between fixity and fluidity: what can a translingual perspective teach us about language policies in the global South?
Diogo Oliveira do Espírito Santo
Abstract:Moving away from the tradition of treating multilingualism as a problem and language as an autonomous system, current theoretical approaches have shifted from monolingual principles toward translingual perspectives to investigate the relationship between language policy and ideology. In this text, I take on such a position to explore how multilinguals’ attitudes toward their languages are shaped by ideologies that highlight both the fixity and fluidity of contemporary communicative practices. In order to do so… Show more
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