Translingualismo

Para iniciarmos nossa discussão acerca do tema, registro aqui algumas definições e depoimentos interessantes que me deparei enquanto relia minhas anotações feitas durante o Bilinglatam e pesquisava sobre o tema:

- Translingualism is a term from Kellman (2000) and Schwarzer et al. (2006), who see teaching L2 as a bridge between languages that allow one to retain a unified mind and not be cloven into two for the sake of being multilingual.

- Translingualism involves not only a language choice but also the transformation of linguistic and cultural identities, for their worldwiew was now being mediated through a new language. (Kellman, 2004)

- Translingualism involves from the mistery of first hearing a different tongue, the excitement of mastering a foreign language, the impact of a new language on the self of the speaker, the imperalism and its linguistic 

legacy. (Kellman, 2004)

- Translingual education: To give students access to an education in English without diminishing their respect for their own or others (Huang, 2010).

Depoimentos extraídos do livro “The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues” de Steven G. Kellman (2004) que relaciona esses escritores ao translingualismo.

“It seems to me that in any other language happiness is not so sweet,    logic is not so clear. I am not sure that I could believe in my    neighbors as I do if I thought about them in un-English words. I    could almost say that my conviction of immortality is bound up with    the English of its promise. And as I am attached to my prejudices,    I must love the English Language!”

Mary Antin, um judeu russo que emigrou para os EUA em 1894

“I had to work like a coal-miner in his pit quarrying all my English sentences out of a black night.”

Joseph Conrad, aprendeu inglês aos 20 anos, depois de aprender polonês e francês.

"Spanish is my right eye, English my left; Yiddish my background and Hebrew my conscience. Or better, each of the four represents a different set of spectacles (nearsight, bifocal, night-reading, etc.) through which the universe is seen."

Ilan Stavans, escritor que escreve em inglês e espanhol

"The Nazis robbed me of my mother tongue, but the rest of the separation, of the violent severing of culture, was my own choice. My writing, my intense drive to become an 'American Writer' had pushed me into leaving the language of my childhood behind, never counting the cost."

Gerda Lerner, uma escritora judia e austríaca

"No words in English have this power, to take me back home to childhood.”

M.J. Fitzgerald, filha do tradutor Robert Fitzgerald que cresceu na Itália

"I am an orphaned writer."

Declarou o escritor Louis Begley, ainda lamentando a perda se uma língua materna, o polonês, quando sua família se mudou para os EUA aos 13 anos

"For me, one language is complementary to the other, one always lacking a capacity that the other has." Shaped by Italy, England, and the U.S, Fitzgerald observes, "I have to live straddling the three cultures I have absorbed.”

Ha-yun Jung, que escreve ficção em inglês, mas recentemente retornou para seu país de origem, Coréia do Norte, e se sente incompleta tanto em inglês quanto em coreano.

Há também o site do professor Suresh Canagarajah - http://www.personal.psu.edu/asc16/ um dos pesquisadores mais significativos acerca do tema.

Por favor, contribuam!