Noticing v. anecdotally - in #academia - how quickly 'n often monoligual speakers of English in my #UK context go on the defensive (in their tone of voice - a mix of sarcasm/affront) when presented with non-English sources and references: eg. 'would be nice to have an English plug-in for that!' or 'not all of us are multilingual' and 'I don't feel this is a very inclusive space'.

#MonoLingualism #MultiLingualism
#TransLingualism
#LinguisticImperialism #PunchingUp
#PunchingDown
#HigherEducation

Can we decolonise our doctoral training (https://wonkhe.com/blogs/can-we-decolonise-our-doctoral-training/ as well as the comments)?

"When we teach mentoring and coaching skills, we may tell participants to *adopt a paused speech pattern for effective listening*. However, for some cultural backgrounds and ethnicities, reflective pauses in conversation can be perceived as uncertainty, hostility or even rudeness."

Thinking of this also in relation to #MultiLingualism #TransLingualism in #AcWri practices #DoctoralWriting

Should we?

Just out! Special issue: Translingual and translocal perspectives on writing https://apples.journal.fi/issue/view/8905 Ed. @MariaKuteeva & @tainasaarinen, we zoom on various aspects of translingual & translocal writing, from its legitimacy to its localities. A thread on this #OpenAccess #translingualism #translocalism #writing #AcademicWriting issue 1/

"The limits of translingualism:
In search of complementary forms of resistance", co-authored and published #OpenAccess in:

https://apples.journal.fi/article/view/114738 in the Journal of Applied Language Studies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47862/apples.114738

#AcademicWriting #inequality #TranslingualWriting #AcWri #Translingualism #AppliedLinguistics #Monolingualism #Resistance #tleap

@isanchezprado This tracks for him, as someone who wrote his dissertation on Beckett and how he chose to write in French to write without style.

#multilingualism #translingualism

For anyone interested in Writing Studies, the latest #WRAB2023 programme has been uploaded (February 2023 in Trondheim, Norway).

Anyone else o #AcademicMastodon who's going?

#AcWri #WritingAcrossBorders #HigherEducation #WritingStudies #WritingForPublication #TransLingualism #WritingAssessment
https://www.ntnu.edu/wrab23/program

I wrote a new #Blogpost to put down some of my ideas. Came across an interesting point by the polyglot intellectual Syed Mujtaba Ali about compound phrasing in Bangla and its parallel to English compound phrasing.

Basically argues that both features emerged because the people had to speak to the foreign rulers and themselves simultaneously:

https://atthecentersattheedges.wordpress.com/2022/11/25/compound-phrasing-in-bangla-notes-from-syed-mujtuba-ali/
#multilingualism #translingualism
#Bangla #SyedMujtabaAli