Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity

Sender Dovchin is Associate Professor at the Centre for Language Research, University of Aizu, Japan. Her research focuses on the language education of young people living in globalized contexts, and she has contributed widely to international peer-reviewed journals.Alastair Pennycook is Distinguished Professor of Language, Society and Education at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is best known for his work on the global spread of English, critical applied linguistics, language and popular culture, language ideologies and urban multilingualism, and his publications on these topics have thrice won the BAAL Book award. Shaila Sultana is Professor of Language Education at the Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She aims to develop an inclusive education system in Bangladesh so that all young adults have equal access to education. She has authored articles in a range of journals on trans-approaches to language and identity, sociology, critical geography and the historical and sociocultural significance of English in post-colonial countries.

“Dovchin, Pennycook, & Sultana have contributed to the field of sociolinguistics a novel approach to the study of language in online and offline contexts. This book should be key to any course on the sociolinguistics of the internet, computer-mediated communication, or the study of multilingualism more generally.” (Quentin Williams, Language in Society, Vol. 48 (1), February, 2019)

• Chapter 1. Language, culture and the periphery.- Chapter 2. Transglossia: From translanguaging to transglossia.- Chapter 3. Transglossia and music: Music, sound and authenticity.- Chapter 4. Transglossia and films: Sense of affiliation.- Chapter 5. Transglossia and sports: Men talk and masculinity.- Chapter 6. Cyber transglossia: Unequal resources.- Chapter 7. Transglossia and cultural jamming: Parodies and group solidarity.- Chapter 8. Popular culture, transglossic practices and pedagogy.