Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies: Exploring Urban, Rural and Educational Spaces

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Ari Sherris Elisabetta Adami

Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies

Exploring Urban, Rural and Educational Spaces

Ari Sherris, Elisabetta Adami

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Multilingual Matters
29 October 2018

Bilingualism & multilingualism; Communication studies; Semiotics & semiology; Physical anthropology & ethnography

Series: Encounters

This book is the beginning of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Radical Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity, and its social semiotic and situated character. It relocates current debates in linguistics and in multimodality, as well as conceptions of centers/margins, by re-conceptualizing communicative practice through investigation of indigenous/oral communities, street art performances, migration contexts, recycling artefacts and signage repurposing. The book takes an innovative approach to both the form and content of its scholarly writing, and will be of interest to all those involved in interdisciplinary thinking, researching and writing.

Edited by: Ari Sherris, Elisabetta Adami
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781788921916
ISBN 10: 1788921917
Series: Encounters
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 29 October 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ari Sherris is Associate Professor of Bilingual Education in the College of Education and Human Performance at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA. His research interests include ethnography, complexity theory, critical discourse analysis, multimodality and translanguaging. Elisabetta Adami is University Academic Fellow in Multimodal Communication at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests include multimodality, social semiotics, meaning, intercultural communication, digital communication, semiotics of space and semiotic/linguistic landscape.

Reviews for Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies: Exploring Urban, Rural and Educational Spaces

This book provides fascinating methodological and theoretical pathways to shift the translanguaging paradigm beyond limiting forms of linguistic exceptionalism, methodological individualism, and cognitive representationalism, and study meanings as embodied, embedded, and extended. * Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, USA *