The Politics of Translingualism

This book seeks to destabilize underlying attitudes inherent in the narrowly conceptualized view of Englishes by pushing forward current theories of translingualism and integrating cutting-edge scholarship from sociolinguistics, critical theory, and composition studies.

Jerry Won Lee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also faculty affiliate in the Department of Asian American Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.

1. Translingualism, Difference, and "Englishes as Cultural Fact" 2. Proficiency, Legitimacy, Elasticity 3. Theorizing Inscrutability 4. Wayward Englishes 5. The Inscrutability of Standardized English 6. The Inscrutability of Englishes in the "Real World" 7. Translingualism and the Politics of Pedagogy 8. After Englishes