This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments. Focusing on the diverse linguistic and cultural resources these young people draw on in their interactions, the authors draw attention to the creative and innovative nature of their transglossic practices.

Chapter 1. Language, culture and the periphery.- Chapter 2. Transglossia: From translanguaging to transglossia.- Chapter 3. Transglossia and music: Music, sound and authenticity.- Chapter 4. Transglossia and films: Sense of affiliation.- Chapter 5. Transglossia and sports: Men talk and masculinity.- Chapter 6. Cyber transglossia: Unequal resources.- Chapter 7. Transglossia and cultural jamming: Parodies and group solidarity.- Chapter 8. Popular culture, transglossic practices and pedagogy.

“Dovchin, Pennycook, & Sultana have contributed to the field of sociolinguistics a novel approach to the study of language in online and offline contexts. This book should be key to any course on the sociolinguistics of the internet, computer-mediated communication, or the study of multilingualism more generally.” (Quentin Williams, Language in Society, Vol. 48 (1), February, 2019)

“There is nothing virtual about the virtual world, the authors of this book state categorically, and they drive their analysis into a vast, new, and barely explored space: the nexus of online and offline social practices of young people. This is cutting edge sociolinguistics performed by some of the best minds in the field today, a must-read of great theoretical as well as documentary significance.” (Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University, Netherlands) “Firmly grounded in a new wave of transgressive sociolinguistics, this book introduces the notion of transglossic practices to shed new light on the ways young people from Mongolia and Bangladesh appropriate globally and locally circulating semiotic resources in their everyday communicative activities on and offline. The authors theorize popular culture as a space of semiotic practice that enables people to experience creativity and pleasure as much as negotiate relations of power and inequality. Thought provoking and full of engaging examples, this book shows how a view from the periphery can shed light to semiotic practices that shape late modern societies on a global scale.” (Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg, Germany) “A timely and intriguing study of the language of youth culture in the digital age. By studying how early adopters of new communicative technologies experiment and promote sociolinguistic change, this joint project provides a fascinating look into the creation of new semiolinguistic meanings and practices.” (Marco Jacquemet, University of San Francisco, USA) “This fascinating book does a lot of really interesting things – showing how young people take up linguistic resources and voices from different sources of popular culture – but above all its significance lies in the relocation of this discussion from Europe and North America to young adults in the Asian peripheries.”(Angel Lin, The University of Hong Kong, China)

Considers multiple genres of popular culture including music, film, sport and cyber-culture to investigate the language practices of young adults Focuses on countries on the Asian periphery - this area have received little previous attention in the socio- and applied linguistics literature Considers the role of varied popular cultures genres in a globalised context, therefore considering the important interplay between language and globalisation Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras