ABSTRACT

Translanguaging is an increasingly popular concept used in the description of multilingual practices and in language policy and language pedagogy research. In this paper, I argue that the main reason for the rapid increase in the use of this concept is that it has rhizomatic characteristics. My argument is supported by evidence supplied by a project conducted among members of a Romani-Hungarian bilingual Roma community in a small town in Hungary. After introducing Deleuze and Guattaris’ rhizome-metaphor (1987) and its reception in sociolinguistics, I survey dimensions of translanguaging and point out that its interpretation as a rhizomatic multiplicity opens up new possibilities for the description of multilingual practices and helps to understand the versatility of the concept. Based on evidence supplied by the project referred to above, I claim that the concept of translanguaging, in virtue of its rhizomatic features offers new emphases in the interpretation of multilingual linguistic practices, and that the concept itself has the characteristics of a rhizomatic multiplicity, enabling it to connect to other multiplicities. Such an understanding of translanguaging may help determine pedagogical stance or influence and shape efforts made to maintain minority languages.

摘要

跨语言翻译是一种越来越流行的概念，用于描述多语言实践以及语言政策和语言教学法研究中。在本文中，我认为使用此概念迅速增加的主要原因是它具有根茎特性。我的论据得到了在匈牙利的一个小镇中的一个由罗马匈牙利语双语罗姆人社区成员进行的项目提供的证据的支持。在介绍了Deleuze和Guattaris的“根茎隐喻”（1987）及其在社会语言学中的接受之后，我调查了翻译的各个维度，并指出，将其解释为根际多重性为描述多语言实践开辟了新的可能性，并有助于理解语言的多功能性。这个概念。根据上述项目提供的证据，我声称，转语言的概念凭借其根际特征，为多语言语言实践的解释提供了新的重点，并且该概念本身具有根际多样性的特征，使其能够与其他多重性联系起来。对跨语言的这种理解可能有助于确定教学立场或影响力，并影响维护少数民族语言的努力。