translingualism

English

Etymology

From translingual +‎ -ism.

Noun

translingualism (usually uncountable, plural translingualisms)

1. (linguistics, uncountable) The phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language.
   • 2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word‎^[1]:

     The idea of translingualism, as it is often called in composition studies or translanguaging as it is often called in linguistics, rejects the monolingual norm.

2. (linguistics, countable) A specific phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language, such as a term or symbol used in more than one language.
   • 1990, Research in African Literatures, volume 21, number 3, page 84:

     This third approach can be illustrated by one of the most frequently-observed of Okara's translingualisms, the transposition into English of Ijo word-order.