Popular Culture in Transglossic Language Practices of Young Adults

Sultana, S; Dovchin, S

Popular Culture in Transglossic Language Practices of Young Adults

Sultana, S Dovchin, S

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: International Multilingual Research Journal, 2017, 11 (2), pp. 67 - 85
Issue Date:: 2017-04-03

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dc.contributor.author	Sultana, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Dovchin, S https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4327-7096	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-04-03	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	International Multilingual Research Journal, 2017, 11 (2), pp. 67 - 85	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1931-3152	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/98733
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Based on virtual conversations drawn from two separate intensive ethnographic studies in Bangladesh and Mongolia, we show that popular cultural texts play a significant role in young adults’ heteroglossic language practices. On the one hand, they borrow voices from cultural texts and cross the boundaries of language, i.e., codes, modes, and genres, and engage in translocalization and transculturation. On the other hand, they subtly manipulate various ideologies hidden underneath the voices, transtextualize the cultural texts, and maintain desired affiliation and distance from certain identity attributes. A transglossic analysis of data shows that heteroglossia needs to be understood not so much through linguistic or genre-specific features as it is usually done in applied linguistics research but with reference to transgression afforded in the borrowed voices. The significance of popular culture in language and identity research can only be unravelled when language is considered as transglossic rather than heteroglossic.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	International Multilingual Research Journal	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/19313152.2016.1208633	en_US
dc.title	Popular Culture in Transglossic Language Practices of Young Adults	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	11	en_US
utslib.for	2004 Linguistics	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Adult Learning and Applied Linguistics Program
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.issue	2	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	11	en_US

Abstract:

© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Based on virtual conversations drawn from two separate intensive ethnographic studies in Bangladesh and Mongolia, we show that popular cultural texts play a significant role in young adults’ heteroglossic language practices. On the one hand, they borrow voices from cultural texts and cross the boundaries of language, i.e., codes, modes, and genres, and engage in translocalization and transculturation. On the other hand, they subtly manipulate various ideologies hidden underneath the voices, transtextualize the cultural texts, and maintain desired affiliation and distance from certain identity attributes. A transglossic analysis of data shows that heteroglossia needs to be understood not so much through linguistic or genre-specific features as it is usually done in applied linguistics research but with reference to transgression afforded in the borrowed voices. The significance of popular culture in language and identity research can only be unravelled when language is considered as transglossic rather than heteroglossic.

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