Shaila Sultana

List of John Benjamins publications in which Shaila Sultana is involved.

Title

Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time

Edited by Shaila Sultana and Dariush Izadi

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:2 (2022) v, 116 pp.

Sultana, Shaila 2022 Translingual practices and national identity mediated in the semiotized digital spaces Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time, Sultana, Shaila and Dariush Izadi (eds.), pp. 175–197 | Article

Considering the contradictions in the structured and static approaches to the nation and national identity observed world-wide and fluid trans- approaches to language in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, the paper explores how national identity is constructed and sustained nowadays,… read more

Sultana, Shaila and Dariush Izadi 2022 Editorial: Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time, Sultana, Shaila and Dariush Izadi (eds.), pp. 127–134 | Editorial

Sultana, Shaila 2016 Language and identity in virtual space: Reconceptualisation of ELF Asian Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca and Identity, Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew (ed.), pp. 216–237 | Article

Based on the data drawn from an intensive ethnographic study on young adults in Bangladesh conducted in the virtual space, specifically Facebook (FB) and analysis of those data through a transglossic framework, the paper shows that the meaning-making processes in lingua franca (LF) encounters can… read more

Dovchin, Sender, Shaila Sultana and Alastair Pennycook 2015 Relocalizing the translingual practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 1:1, pp. 4–26 | Article

The translingual practices of young Mongolians and Bangladeshis suggest that contrary to those popular discourses which position youth as passive recipients of global culture, these young adults are better understood as actively and powerfully engaged with popular culture productions. Drawing on… read more

Sultana, Shaila 2015 Transglossic language practices: Young adults transgressing language and identity in Bangladesh Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 1:2, pp. 202–232 | Article

This paper contributes to a recent development in Applied Linguistics that encourages research from trans- approaches. Drawing on the results of an ethnographic research project carried out in a university of Bangladesh. It is illustrated how young adults actively and reflexively use a mixture of… read more