The complementarity of multilingualist and 4T approaches

John E. Joseph

doi:10.1017/9781108780469.018

The complementarity of multilingualist and 4T approaches

John E. Joseph

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Abstract

Recent assertions about ‘post-multilingualism’ (Li Wei 2016, 2018) are based on the growing body of work in what may be called the ‘4T’ approach or perspective: translanguaging, transmodal, transindividual, transspecies. If this is seen as superseding multilingualist approaches, such a subtractive development stands to impoverish understanding of language use. This chapter argues for them instead to be conceived of in an additive, complementary way – not in opposition to one another, but in joint use to provide as strong as possible an alternative to deeply rooted views concerning purported disadvantages of multilingualism and the erasure of its existence in various areas of linguistic research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Multilingualism and Identity
Subtitle of host publication	Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Editors	Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Linda Fisher
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	18
Pages	365-374
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108780469
ISBN (Print)	9781108490207
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108780469.018
Publication status	Published - 4 Aug 2022

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4T approaches
translanguaging

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