Languaging

Abstract

In this chapter, we illustrate how researchers are defining myriad forms of languaging across contexts, including race languaging, bilanguaing, and the most prominent today, translanguaging and related terms. In doing so, we seek to highlight the compelling purpose of researching from a (trans)languaging frame: to center an asset-oriented view of bi/multilingual and bi/multidialectical people that normalizes their dynamic, purposeful, and creative languaging and its potential to transform their communities. In turn, we seek to draw attention to how translanguaging is simultaneously an ideological belief that bi/multingualism is the norm, a theory reflecting a psychosociocultural reality, a pedagogical practice, and a political act that ruptures monoglossic norms for racialized bilinguals (García, 2019).