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This article examines the uses of English in the multilingual cityscape of Tehran, the capital city of Iran. Drawing from photographic data of 400 publicly visible signs in Tehran, this study aims to understand the various ways in which English, as both a linguistic and cultural resource, operates in tandem with emergent Iranian cultural practices in the context of globalization, especially in relation to the centrality of Persianness to contemporary Iranian national identity. The article, in addition to offering a sociolinguistic history and contemporary portrait of English in Iran, demonstrates how English is used not only to index Western cultural influences and ideals but also how English is relocalized in accordance with the local communicative needs of contemporary Iranians in Tehran. We refer to this phenomenon as the Persianization of English, in which English operates in a discursive field delinked from its indexes to Western culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article looks to the assassination of Marielle Franco, a queer Black councilwoman from the Complexo da Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro, to outline a principled metacomunicative action toward "hope." Empirically, it unpacks features of the pragmatics of her discourse, along with that of mourners who knew her. We identify two main features in their discourse that point to the enregisterment of hope, i.e. to ways in which their communicative practices have been attuned to avoid despair by propelling an alternative indexing of time, authority, and forms of life. These features are as follows: metaleptic temporality, i.e. the reinsertion of Marielle's agentive time into the temporal universe of heroes; and papo reto, a translational and performative practice of scaling bureaucratic and economic talk into local registers. Finally, we point to the habituated and pedagogic dimension of this sociolinguistics of hope, in part responsible for the fractalization and performativity of the mourning movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Translingualism and translanguaging have emerged as important constructs in the study of language and communication. Ongoing efforts to make sense of translingualism and translanguaging can be partly attributed to the way the constructs present the use of multiple language resources and how such communicative practices reflect speakers from marginalized and minority communities. It is thus natural for World Englishes to contribute to such empirical and theoretical efforts, as world Englishes scholars are committed to understanding how English, along with other language resources, are used in a range of contexts and for varied communicative purposes. To this end, the present editorial introduction, along with the contributions to this special issue, explores the ways in which translingualism and translanguaging can be understood within the context of world Englishes scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inner Circle contexts, and especially Inner Circle academic contexts guided by ideologies of monolingualism, can frequently be spaces that are hostile to 'different,' non‐Inner Circle varieties of English. Meanwhile, recent research in translingualism demonstrates how individuals can produce spaces that are conducive to linguistic plurality. This paper analyzes how speakers of a non‐Inner Circle variety of English are able to use linguistic and spatial repertoires to transform an Inner Circle academic space into one in which different varieties of English can be an effective communicative resource. Using the case of graduate student speakers of an Expanding Circle (China) English in the US, we illustrate how such speakers, even if their spoken China English, when understood in isolated structural terms, may be dismissed as 'accented,' 'substandard' or even 'unintelligible,' create a pluralistic space of interaction in which such difference need not be an impediment to communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much research in world Englishes centers on examining the linguistic features of a particular region. Such work can give the false impression of a collective homogeneous ideology of English within a geographic space. We refer to this limiting monolithic perspective of language ideology as 'the single linguistic narrative.' The present study builds on this body of work by investigating how often competing ideologies of English can circulate within a region. Focusing on the Hong Kong context, we adapt the concept of Bakhtinian heteroglossia to consider the simultaneous co-presence of varying ideologies of English. Through an analysis of self-narratives, we examine how Hong Kong university students construct expectations regarding how English should be used and what the colonial language means to their regional identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]