Abstract
Contesting the monolingualist assumptions in composition, this article identifies textual and pedagogical spaces for World Englishes in academic writing. It presents code meshing as a strategy for merging local varieties with Standard Written English in a move toward gradually pluralizing academic writing and developing multilingual competence for transnational relationships.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 586-619 |
Number of pages | 34 |
Journal | College Composition and Communication |
Volume | 57 |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Published - Jun 1 2006 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Education
- Language and Linguistics
- Literature and Literary Theory