English as a language always in translation

Pennycook, A

English as a language always in translation

Pennycook, A

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Citation:: European Journal of English Studies, 2008, 12 (1), pp. 33 - 47
Issue Date:: 2008-04-01

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dc.contributor.author	Pennycook, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4656-6187	en_US
dc.date.issued	2008-04-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	European Journal of English Studies, 2008, 12 (1), pp. 33 - 47	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1382-5577	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10628
dc.description.abstract	© 2008 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The global enterprise of English language teaching (ELT) ought to present the possibility of bringing millions of people into the global traffic of meaning. Yet it does not do so because global ELT is paradoxically viewed as a monolingual enterprise. Both the pedagogy that underpins much of this spread and the ways in which the global spread of English has been described and resisted emphasize English as a language that operates only in its own presence. Overlooked are the ways in which English always needs to be seen in the context of other languages, as a language always in translation. Yet if we wish to take global diversity seriously, we would do well to focus on semiodiversity (the diversity of meanings) as much as glossodiversity (the diversity of languages), and to do so by taking up a project of translingual activism as part of ELT. If students are to enter the global traffic of meaning, translation needs to become central to what we do.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	European Journal of English Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/13825570801900521	en_US
dc.title	English as a language always in translation	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

© 2008 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The global enterprise of English language teaching (ELT) ought to present the possibility of bringing millions of people into the global traffic of meaning. Yet it does not do so because global ELT is paradoxically viewed as a monolingual enterprise. Both the pedagogy that underpins much of this spread and the ways in which the global spread of English has been described and resisted emphasize English as a language that operates only in its own presence. Overlooked are the ways in which English always needs to be seen in the context of other languages, as a language always in translation. Yet if we wish to take global diversity seriously, we would do well to focus on semiodiversity (the diversity of meanings) as much as glossodiversity (the diversity of languages), and to do so by taking up a project of translingual activism as part of ELT. If students are to enter the global traffic of meaning, translation needs to become central to what we do.

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