Translanguaging in Translation: Invisible Contributions That Shape Our Language and Society

This book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean and their translations. It examines the traces of translanguaging in translated texts with special focus on the strategic use of scripts, morphemes, words, names, onomatopoeias, metaphors, puns and other contextualized linguistic elements. As a result, the author draws attention to the long-term, often invisible contributions of translanguaging performed by translators to the development of languages and society. The analysis sheds light on the problems caused by monolingualizing forces in translation, teaching and communicative contexts in modern societies, as well as bringing a new dimension to the burgeoning field of translanguaging studies. 

Eriko Sato is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and the Director of Language Learning Research Center (LLRC) at Stony Brook University in New York, USA. Her most recent book is Translanguaging in Translation: Invisible Contributions that Shape Our Language and Society (Multilingual Matters, 2022).