Moment Analysis and translanguaging space: Discursive construction of identities by multilingual Chinese youth in Britain

• Published in: Journal of pragmatics Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 1222 - 1235
• Main Author: Wei, Li
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.04.2011
• Subjects: Adolescents; Chinese; Cross Cultural Communication; Cultural Identity; Great Britain; Language Culture Relationship; Language Ideology; Multilingual practices; Multilingualism; Social Factors; Social space; Translanguaging; Youth; Translanguaging; Youth; Chinese; Social space; Multilingual practices

Translanguaging is both going between different linguistic structures and systems and going beyond them. It includes the full range of linguistic performances of multilingual language users for purposes that transcend the combination of structures, the alternation between systems, the transmission o...