Ari Sherris is Associate Professor of Bilingual Education in the College of Education and Human Performance at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA. His research interests include ethnography, complexity theory, critical discourse analysis, multimodality and translanguaging.Elisabetta Adami is University Academic Fellow in Multimodal Communication at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests include multimodality, social semiotics, meaning, intercultural communication, digital communication, semiotics of space and semiotic/linguistic landscape.

After beginning as an orientation to communicative practices that transcend labeled languages, Translanguaging now analyzes practices that transcend language itself, to include diverse semiotic resources in expansive time/space materialities. Scholars are breaking free from the limiting forms of linguistic exceptionalism, methodological individualism, and cognitive representationalism to study meanings as embodied, embedded, and extended. This book provides significant methodological and theoretical pathways to undertake this form of inquiry.

• Foreword by Gunther Kress & Jeff BezemerChapter 1. Ari Sherris and Elisabetta Adami: Unifying Entanglements and Dynamic Relationalities: An IntroductionChapter 2. Jan Blommaert, Ofelia García, Gunther Kress and Diane Larsen-Freeman: Communicating Beyond Diversity: A Bricolage of TheoriesChapter 3. Elisabetta Adami: Multimodal Sign-making in Superdiverse Contexts: The Case of Leeds Kirkgate MarketChapter 4. Arlene Archer and Anders Björkvall: Material Sign-making in Diverse Contexts: ‘Upcycled’ Artefacts as Refracting Global / Local DiscoursesChapter 5. Felix Banda, Hambaba Jimaima and Lorato Mokwena: Semiotic Remediation of Chinese Signage in the Linguistic Landscapes of Two Rural Areas of ZambiaChapter 6. Jessica Bradley and Emilee Moore: Resemiotisation and Creative Production: Extending the Translanguaging LensChapter 7. Nirukshi Perera: Gesture and Translanguaging at the Tamil TempleChapter 8. Samantha Goodchild and Miriam Weidl: Translanguaging Practices in the Casamance, Senegal: Similar but Different: Two Case StudiesChapter 9. Ari Sherris, Paul Schaefer and Samua Mango Aworo: The Paradox of Translanguaging in Safaliba, a Rural Indigenous Ghanaian LanguageChapter 10. Ari Sherris and Elisabetta Adami: Heterarchic CommentariesIndexes                                                                                                      Name indexSubject index

Ari Sherris is Associate Professor of Bilingual Education in the College of Education and Human Performance at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA. His research interests include ethnography, complexity theory, critical discourse analysis, multimodality and translanguaging.Elisabetta Adami is University Academic Fellow in Multimodal Communication at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests include multimodality, social semiotics, meaning, intercultural communication, digital communication, semiotics of space and semiotic/linguistic landscape.

After beginning as an orientation to communicative practices that transcend labeled languages, Translanguaging now analyzes practices that transcend language itself, to include diverse semiotic resources in expansive time/space materialities. Scholars are breaking free from the limiting forms of linguistic exceptionalism, methodological individualism, and cognitive representationalism to study meanings as embodied, embedded, and extended. This book provides significant methodological and theoretical pathways to undertake this form of inquiry.

• Foreword by Gunther Kress & Jeff BezemerChapter 1. Ari Sherris and Elisabetta Adami: Unifying Entanglements and Dynamic Relationalities: An IntroductionChapter 2. Jan Blommaert, Ofelia García, Gunther Kress and Diane Larsen-Freeman: Communicating Beyond Diversity: A Bricolage of TheoriesChapter 3. Elisabetta Adami: Multimodal Sign-making in Superdiverse Contexts: The Case of Leeds Kirkgate MarketChapter 4. Arlene Archer and Anders Björkvall: Material Sign-making in Diverse Contexts: ‘Upcycled’ Artefacts as Refracting Global / Local DiscoursesChapter 5. Felix Banda, Hambaba Jimaima and Lorato Mokwena: Semiotic Remediation of Chinese Signage in the Linguistic Landscapes of Two Rural Areas of ZambiaChapter 6. Jessica Bradley and Emilee Moore: Resemiotisation and Creative Production: Extending the Translanguaging LensChapter 7. Nirukshi Perera: Gesture and Translanguaging at the Tamil TempleChapter 8. Samantha Goodchild and Miriam Weidl: Translanguaging Practices in the Casamance, Senegal: Similar but Different: Two Case StudiesChapter 9. Ari Sherris, Paul Schaefer and Samua Mango Aworo: The Paradox of Translanguaging in Safaliba, a Rural Indigenous Ghanaian LanguageChapter 10. Ari Sherris and Elisabetta Adami: Heterarchic CommentariesIndexes                                                                                                      Name indexSubject index