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Saternus Dissertation-Multilingual Literacy Practices In One Community.Pdf, Julie Saternus Jul 2019

Saternus Dissertation-Multilingual Literacy Practices In One Community.Pdf, Julie Saternus

Julie Saternus

Scholars writing in translingual studies view language boundaries as fluid, consider multilinguals to have options that include shuttling back and forth between languages in order to achieve their rhetorical goals, and argue that monolingual ideologies are harmful. Translingual studies is part of a movement away from structuralist conceptions of language, and within translingualism language is viewed as "flexible, unstable, dynamic, layered, and mobile" (Blommaert, 2016, p. 244).

This dissertation focuses on the translingual literacy practices of multilingual members of the Japanese/English school community at this university. I analyze writing processes, speech, and media usage of members of this community (English …

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Nisei Linguists During World War Ii, Kayoko Takeda Dec 2006

Nisei Linguists During World War Ii, Kayoko Takeda

Kayoko Takeda 武田珂代子

During World War II and the occupation of Japan, Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans) played crucial roles as translators, interpreters, and interrogators, and served in other important language-related functions. Since they worked in military intelligence, their contributions were not discussed in much detail until the early 1970s, when a number of intelligence documents were declassified. This article presents an overview of the recruitment and activities of these Nisei linguists.

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