Encouraging the Expression of Linguistic Identity in Writing, Speaking, and Arguing

Category Scholarly References

Here you will find research articles, books, anthologies, and special issues of academic journals exploring code-meshing as a translingual writing strategy in the classroom and beyond.

Some of these resources include lesson plans and assignments that allow both domestic and international students to explore their diverse use of language outside of the dominant conventions of academic and professional writing.

Other resources are academic studies that have observed and traced the intricacies of mixed languages (including pidgins and creoles) around the globe and the diversity of dialects within a single language, like English.

Please note that the items appear in alphabetical order according to the short title, across several pages. Please explore!

“Should Code-switching Be Taught in Schools?”

Oliver, R. , Rubba, J., Meyer, R., McIntosh, G., Morris, C., Seidenberg, M., & Brennan, W. (2018, April 29). Letters: should code-switching be taught in schools? The Atlantic. Find the article here.

“Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual”

Johnstone, Barbara. (2009). Stance, style, and the linguistic individual. In A. M. Jaffe (Ed.), Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives (pp. 20-52). New York: Oxford University Press. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/9780195331646

“Subversive Complicity”

Villanueva, V. (2013). Subversive complicity and basic writing across the curriculum. Journal of Basic Writing 32(1): 97-110. Find the article here.

“Talkin and Testifyin”

Smitherman, G. (1977). Talkin and testifyin: The language of Black America. Wayne State University Press. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/0814318053 An excerpt: The most distinctive differences in the structure of Black Dialect are patterns using be (sometimes written and pronounced… Continue Reading →

“‘Talkin’bout Good & Bad’ Pedagogies”

Williams-Farrier, B.J. (2017). “Talkin’bout Good & Bad” Pedagogies: Code Switching vs. Comparative Rhetorical Approaches. College Composition and Communication 69(2), 230-259. Find the article here.

“There’s No Translation for It”

Lyons, S. R. (2010). There’s no translation for it: The rhetorical sovereignty of indigenous languages. In B. Horner, M-Z Lu, and P. K. Matsuda (Eds.), Cross-language relations in composition (pp. 127-141). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/0809329824

“ToggleTalk”

Learning to Talk. University of Maryland.  Check out the website here: learningtotalk.umd.edu/toggletalk  

“Toward a Mestiza Rhetoric”

Lunsford, A. A. (2014). Toward a mestiza rhetoric: Gloria Anzaldúa on composition and postcoloniality. In A. Lunsford, & L. Ouzgane (Eds.), Crossing borderlands (pp. 33-66). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Find the article here.

“Traveling Literacies”

Leonard, R. L. (2013). Traveling literacies: Multilingual writing on the move. Research in the Teaching of English 48(1) 13-37. Find the article here.  

“When ‘Second’ Comes First— िहंदी to the Eye?”

Pandey, A. (2013). When ‘Second’ Comes First— िहंदी to the Eye?: Sociolinguistic hybridity in professional writing. In A. S.Canagarajah (Ed.), Literacy as translingual practice: Between communities and classrooms (pp. 215-227). New York, NY: Routledge. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/0415524660

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