Decolonizing Academic Writing Through Translingualism - Walking the Talk

This collection explores innovative ways to embody translingual practices in academic writing, showcasing how multilingual authors can effectively leverage their linguistic resources in research and publication.

List of contents

List of Contributors
Foreword (Angel Lin)
Introduction (M. Sidury Christiansen, Zhongfeng Tian, & Suresh Canagarajah)
Part 1: Introspections and Personal Insights
1. Catalyzing Academic Writing through the Poetics of Sensuality, Surrogacy, and Consumption: A Surrogate Eater autohistoria-teoría from a Chicana graduate student perspective (Jennifer Yáñez-Alaniz)
2. Sa isip, sa salita, at sa gawa? A Plurilingual Graduate Student's De/Colonial Autoethnographic Pagninilay on Translingual Academic Writing (John Wayne N. dela Cruz)
3. Inosans Jan Nwè: Unmasking the Decolonizing Tensions of Translingualism (Patriann Smith)
Part 2: Conceptual and Theoretical Explorations
4. Translanguaging as a Hermeneutics of Empathy :¿¿¿¿¿ (Amir Kalan)
5. Restoring Poetics to Scholarship by/Rendering it in Ancient Code-Meshed Poetry/Staves Fff the Tamil Thirst/for Homeland (Vyshali Manivannan)
6. Decolonizing Academic Production through Multimodal and Translinguistic Resources in Latin America (Lorena Córdova-Hernández, Jorge Valtierra-Zamudio, Mario E. López-Gopar, Vilma Huerta Córdova)
Part 3: Multilingual Narratives: Reporting Research beyond Academic Norms
7. Translingual Perspectives in Decolonizing Researcher Subjectivity: Reinterpreting Subjectivity Reconstitution of Chinese Immigrants in Canada (Qinghua Chen)
8. Creando Culturas de Paz: Language, Higher Education, and the Embajador Journey of a Displaced Syrian Student in México (Brenda Sarmiento Quezada)
9. Decolonising Academic Writing through Mongolian Nomadic Cosmology: ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ (Sender Dovchin)
10. World Languages for Specific Purposes, Radical Kinship, and Translanguaging: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Medical Spanish (Stephanie Brock González, Glenn A. Martínez)
Index

About the author

M. Sidury Christiansen is Professor of TESOL/Applied Linguistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.
Zhongfeng Tian (¿¿¿) is Associate Professor of Bilingual Education at Rutgers University-Newark, USA.
Suresh Canagarajah is the Evan Pugh University Professor of Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: M. Sidury Tian Christiansen, M. Sidury Tian (???) Christiansen
• Assisted by: Canagarajah Suresh (Editor), M. Sidury Christiansen (Editor), Zhongfeng Tian (Editor), Zhongfeng Tian (田中锋) (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 08.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032764351
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276435-1
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Communication Studies, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)