Translingual practices and national identity mediated in the semiotized digital spaces

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI:10.1075/aral.21051.sul

Shaila Sultana

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Abstract

Considering the contradictions in the structured and static approaches to the nation and national identity observed world-wide and fluid trans- approaches to language in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, the paper explores how national identity is constructed and sustained nowadays, specifically in digital spaces both discursively and non-discursively. Based on the notion of ‘practice’ by Theodore Schatzki (2002), the paper focuses on the translingual practices in relation to national issues and events in Bangladesh drawn from digital spaces through a virtual ethnography. The findings in this paper show that translingual practices and national identity may apparently seem fluid in digital spaces. However, actors nurture beliefs, values, and ideologies in their translingual practices with reference to a territory-based notion of nation, religion, and national identity. Their discursive construction of nation and national identity also seems entangled with a non-discursive bundle of activities and symbolic and material artefacts within material arrangements of spaces. Verbal violence and terrorism accentuating nationalism get immediacy and are concretized in materially mediated semiotized spaces. With an immediate focus on spatial dynamics, while acknowledging the ethos of the post-structuralist approach to language, the paper, hence, indicates the necessity of transgressing the ‘logocentrism’ in language and identity research in applied linguistics and contributing to the recent development in the post-humanist applied linguistics.

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在符号化的数字空间中，翻译实践与国家认同

考虑到世界范围内观察到的结构化和静态的国家和国家认同方法的矛盾，以及应用语言学和社会语言学中对语言的流动跨方法，本文探讨了当今国家认同是如何构建和维持的，特别是在话语和非话语的数字空间中。基于Theodore Schatzki(2002)的“实践”概念，本文通过虚拟民族志，重点关注与孟加拉国国家问题和事件相关的数字空间翻译实践。本文的研究结果表明，在数字空间中，翻译实践和国家认同似乎是流动的。然而，演员在他们的翻译实践中培养了基于地域的民族、宗教和民族认同概念的信仰、价值观和意识形态。他们对国家和民族认同的话语建构似乎也与一堆非话语的活动以及空间物质安排中的象征性和物质性人工制品纠缠在一起。语言暴力和恐怖主义加剧了民族主义，并在物质媒介的符号化空间中具体化。因此，本文在承认后结构主义语言研究思潮的同时，直接关注空间动力学，指出有必要在语言和应用语言学的身份研究中超越“逻各斯中心主义”，并为后人文主义应用语言学的最新发展做出贡献。

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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics LINGUISTICS-

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2.70

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) is the preeminent journal of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA). ARAL is a peer reviewed journal that promotes scholarly discussion and contemporary understandings of language-related matters with a view to impacting on real-world problems and debates. The journal publishes empirical and theoretical research on language/s in educational, professional, institutional and community settings. ARAL welcomes national and international submissions presenting research related to any of the major sub-disciplines of Applied Linguistics as well as transdisciplinary studies. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: · Analysis of discourse and interaction · Assessment and evaluation · Bi/multilingualism and bi/multilingual education · Corpus linguistics · Cognitive linguistics · Language, culture and identity · Language maintenance and revitalization · Language planning and policy · Language teaching and learning, including specific languages and TESOL · Pragmatics · Research design and methodology · Second language acquisition · Sociolinguistics · Language and technology · Translating and interpreting.