Positioning the Translingual Approach: Producing a Positive Linguistic Liminality for Language Learners

This project focuses on the translingual approach and stretches the current focus on contact zones into a positive and playful linguistic liminality. This motivation behind this project is to change the way writing instructors and scholars approach the language-use of first non-native or second language speakers and, ultimately, all language users.\ud Chapter 1 - Approaches the term "translingual" from an historical perspective, illuminating the progression of scholars from areas of study like contrastive rhetoric and intercultural rhetoric. This chapter also highlights the growing popularity of TR concepts.\ud Chapter 2 - Focuses on the contact zone, challenging this seemingly unchallenged discussion of intercultural interaction. The contact zone primarily and almost completely focuses on the tension and conflict, but the writer addresses the need for encouraging linguistic play. This chapter acts a bridge to set up the discussion of a positive linguistic liminality in chapter 3.\ud Chapter 3 - enngages the parallel concepts of the translingual and the liminal. This chapter illuminates the varied benefits of a liminal linguistic play.\ud Finally, the appendix houses a practical classroom activity to anchor some of the more historical/research-based/theoretical work of the rest of the project.Literature and Writin