Cross-language relations in composition

"Cross-Language Relations in Composition will change the way we think about how we teach, who we teach, and what we teach."--Morris Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"This book makes clear that our future lies in a multilingual world where the ability to negotiate among different kinds of language in use will be critical. The leading scholars included here guide the field of composition studies toward that future."--Patricia Bizzel, College of the Holy Cross.

Cross-Language Relations in Composition brings together the foremost scholars in the fields of composition, second language writing, education, and literacy studies to address the limitations of the tacit English-only policy prevalent in composition pedagogy and research and to suggest changes for the benefit of writing students and instructors throughout the United States. Recognizing the growing linguistic diversity of students and faculty, the ongoing changes in the English language as a result of globalization, and the increasingly blurred categories of native, foreign, and second language English speakers, editors Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Kei Matsuda have put together a groundbreaking anthology of essays that contest the dominance of English monolingualism in the study and teaching of composition and encourage the pursuit of approaches that embrace multilingualism and cross-language writing as the norm for teaching and research. --Book Jacket.

Linguistic memory and the uneasy settlement of U.S. English / John Trimbur -- Living-English work / Min-Zhan Lu -- Globalization, guanxi, and agency: designing and redesigning the literacies of cyberspace / Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, with Yi-Huey Guo and Lu Liu -- The myth of linguistic homogeneity in U.S. college composition / Paul Kei Matsuda -- "English-only," African American contributions to standardized communication structures, and the potential for social transformation / Elaine Richardson -- Spanglish as alternative discourse: working against language demarcation / Kate Mangelsdorf -- There's no translation for it: the rhetorical sovereignty of indigenous languages / Scott Richard Lyons -- Discourse tensions, Englishes, and the composition classroom / Shondel J. Nero -- A rhetoric of shuttling between languages / A. Suresh Canagarajah -- Ownership of language and the teaching of writing / Shirley Wilson Logan -- Why don't we speak with an accent? Practicing interdependence-in-difference / LuMing Mao -- The challenges and possibilities of taking up multiple discursive resources in U.S. college composition / Anis Bawarshi -- Mapping the cultural ecologies of lan…