This volume collectively explores and aims to reconcile the distinction between "innovation" and "ordinariness" in translinguistics and is essential reading for scholars and students interested in the question of multilingualism across a variety of subject areas.

List of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Negotiating innovation and ordinariness Part I: Translinguistics, space, and time The mundanity of metrolingual practices The ordinary semiotic landscape of an unordinary place: Spatiotemporal disjunctures in Incheon’s Chinatown A language socialization account of translinguistic mudes The ordinarization of translinguistic diversity in a ‘bilingual’ city Ordinary difference, extraordinary dispositions: Sustaining multilingualism in the writing classroom Part II: The in/visibility of translinguistics Formatting online actions: #justsaying on Twitter The ordinariness of translinguistics in Indigenous Australia Hablar portuñol é como respirar: Translanguaging and the descent into the ordinary Translanguaging as a pedagogical resource in Italian primary schools: Making visible the ordinariness of multilingualism Reimagining bilingualism in late modern Puerto Rico: The ‘ordinariness’ of English language use among Latino adolescents The ordinariness of dialect translinguistics in an internally diverse global-city diasporic community Part III: Translinguistics for whom? The everyday politics of translingualism as transgressive practice Tranßcripting: Playful subversion with Chinese characters Transmultilingualism: A remix on translingual communication ‘Bad hombres’, ‘aloha snackbar’, and ‘le cuck’: Mock translanguaging and the production of whiteness Invisible and ubiquitous: Translinguistic practices in metapragmatic discussions in an online English learning community On doing ‘being ordinary’: Everyday acts of speakers’ rights in polylingual families in Ukraine Ordinary English amongst Muslim communities in South and Central Asia Index

"Within this volume, Lee & Dovchin have been able to cover the gaps left by the ‘intellectual fetishism’ that surrounds the present understanding of translingual communicative practices and multilingualism. Rather than a simple turn, we can now firmly talk about a translingual highway in front of us for the study of language and society."Massimiliano Spotti, Tilburg University, The Netherlands