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Wei, Li – Applied Linguistics, 2018
This article seeks to develop Translanguaging as a theory of language and discuss the theoretical motivations behind and the added values of the concept. I contextualize Translanguaging in the linguistic realities of the 21st century, especially the fluid and dynamic practices that transcend the boundaries between named languages, language…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism, Multilingualism
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Wei, Li; Tsang, Alfred; Wong, Nick; Lok, Pedro – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
This paper analyses "Kongish Daily," a Facebook page that trans-scripts local news in Hong Kong into a creative and dynamic mix of Cantonese in traditional Chinese characters, Romanisation and made-up characters, simplified Chinese, pinyin, English, Hong Kong English, other phonetic symbols, emoji and other signs and images. We trace the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Code Switching (Language), Social Media, Sino Tibetan Languages