Shh, hushed multilingualism! Accounting for the discreet genre of translanguaged siding in lecture halls at a South African university
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Bassey E. Antia
Abstract
Translanguaged siding is the term used here for the relatively under-researched phenomenon of student-to-student communication occurring in parallel to the teacher-talk, but using language and other semiotic resources that differ from the teacher’s in order to shape understanding of the teacher’s meanings or to make other meanings. This article draws on Fishman’s reflections on his now famous 1965 question “Who speaks What language to Whom and When?”, and on Bakhtin’s work on dialogicity to examine the dynamics of semiotic choice in translanguaged siding as well as its functions in the experience of multilingual students at a South African University. Data obtained from recorded interviews, a questionnaire survey and documentary evidence allow for establishing that (1) there are complex chains of correlation involving subsets of identified siding variables, and (2) translanguaged siding can be supportive of learning, contrary to associations of siding with Malinowskian small talk.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introducing the Joshua A. Fishman Award
- A feast of letting go
- Articles
- Introduction: Joshua Fishman – public intellectual and intellectual activist
- Joshua A. Fishman: a scholar of unfathomable influence
- “Shikl, what did you do for Yiddish today?” An appreciation of activist scholarship
- A researcher writes for his people: who writes what language for whom and when?
- From language maintenance and intergenerational transmission to language survivance: will “heritage language” education help or hinder?
- Language ideology and language order: conflicts and compromises in colonial and postcolonial Asia
- On the relation between the sociology of language and sociolinguistics: Fishman’s legacy in Brazil
- Status of “women’s language” in a multilingual jurisdiction: power and ethics in legal monolingualism
- Translation and language policy in the dynamics of multilingualism
- Shh, hushed multilingualism! Accounting for the discreet genre of translanguaged siding in lecture halls at a South African university
- Book review
- Hult, Francis M. & David Cassels Johnson: Research methods in language policy and planning: A practical guide
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introducing the Joshua A. Fishman Award
- A feast of letting go
- Articles
- Introduction: Joshua Fishman – public intellectual and intellectual activist
- Joshua A. Fishman: a scholar of unfathomable influence
- “Shikl, what did you do for Yiddish today?” An appreciation of activist scholarship
- A researcher writes for his people: who writes what language for whom and when?
- From language maintenance and intergenerational transmission to language survivance: will “heritage language” education help or hinder?
- Language ideology and language order: conflicts and compromises in colonial and postcolonial Asia
- On the relation between the sociology of language and sociolinguistics: Fishman’s legacy in Brazil
- Status of “women’s language” in a multilingual jurisdiction: power and ethics in legal monolingualism
- Translation and language policy in the dynamics of multilingualism
- Shh, hushed multilingualism! Accounting for the discreet genre of translanguaged siding in lecture halls at a South African university
- Book review
- Hult, Francis M. & David Cassels Johnson: Research methods in language policy and planning: A practical guide
