The mundanity of translanguaging and Aboriginal identity in Australia
Drawing on ethnographic interview analysis of Aboriginal participants in Australia, this study seeks to expand the critical discussions in Applied Linguistics by understanding the concept of translanguaging in relation to its “mundanity” (or ordinariness). Our data shows that rather than perceiving...
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| author | Tankosić, Ana Dovchin, Sender Oliver, Rhonda Exell, Mike |
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| description | Drawing on ethnographic interview analysis of Aboriginal participants in Australia, this study seeks to expand the critical discussions in Applied Linguistics by understanding the concept of translanguaging in relation to its “mundanity” (or ordinariness). Our data shows that rather than perceiving translanguaging as extraordinary, for Aboriginal speakers it is more likely to be considered normal, unremarkable, mundane, and as a long-existing phenomenon. The concept of the mundanity of translanguaging is thereby expanded through three main discussions in this article: 1) negotiating identity and resisting racism, where the Aboriginal speakers choose to translanguage using their full linguistic repertoires, but with appropriate communicative adjustments made for their interlocutor; 2) a display of respect towards their land, heritage and language; and 3) as an inherent and mundane everyday practice where they constantly negotiate between heritage languages, English, Kriol, and Aboriginal English varieties. The significance of this study lies in the normalisation of translanguaging as a mundane disinvention strategy, as this urges us to perceive linguistic separateness as a colonial ideological construct that is used to exhibit control over diverse peoples and to maintain uniformity and stability of nation-states. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-890032024-02-14T07:42:00Z The mundanity of translanguaging and Aboriginal identity in Australia Tankosić, Ana Dovchin, Sender Oliver, Rhonda Exell, Mike Drawing on ethnographic interview analysis of Aboriginal participants in Australia, this study seeks to expand the critical discussions in Applied Linguistics by understanding the concept of translanguaging in relation to its “mundanity” (or ordinariness). Our data shows that rather than perceiving translanguaging as extraordinary, for Aboriginal speakers it is more likely to be considered normal, unremarkable, mundane, and as a long-existing phenomenon. The concept of the mundanity of translanguaging is thereby expanded through three main discussions in this article: 1) negotiating identity and resisting racism, where the Aboriginal speakers choose to translanguage using their full linguistic repertoires, but with appropriate communicative adjustments made for their interlocutor; 2) a display of respect towards their land, heritage and language; and 3) as an inherent and mundane everyday practice where they constantly negotiate between heritage languages, English, Kriol, and Aboriginal English varieties. The significance of this study lies in the normalisation of translanguaging as a mundane disinvention strategy, as this urges us to perceive linguistic separateness as a colonial ideological construct that is used to exhibit control over diverse peoples and to maintain uniformity and stability of nation-states. 2022 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89003 10.1515/applirev-2022-0064 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100118 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Tankosić, Ana Dovchin, Sender Oliver, Rhonda Exell, Mike The mundanity of translanguaging and Aboriginal identity in Australia |
| title | The mundanity of translanguaging and Aboriginal identity in Australia |
| title_full | The mundanity of translanguaging and Aboriginal identity in Australia |
| title_fullStr | The mundanity of translanguaging and Aboriginal identity in Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The mundanity of translanguaging and Aboriginal identity in Australia |
| title_short | The mundanity of translanguaging and Aboriginal identity in Australia |
| title_sort | mundanity of translanguaging and aboriginal identity in australia |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100118 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89003 |