Cross-language relations in composition

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, fore.

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…