Multilingual Writing in Entanglement: Becoming With Others Through Chronotopic Figuring and Unpredictable Encounters

Multilingual Writing in Entanglement: Becoming With Others Through Chronotopic Figuring and Unpredictable Encounters - Paperback

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Multilingual Writing in Entanglement: Becoming With Others Through Chronotopic Figuring and Unpredictable Encounters - Paperback

Multilingual Writing in Entanglement: Becoming With Others Through Chronotopic Figuring and Unpredictable Encounters - Paperback

by Xiqiao Wang
$59.31
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Book Overview

Multilingual Writing in Entanglement offers deep, behind-the-scenes insight into multilingual writing processes through ethnographically constructed case studies of two Chinese international students navigating first-year writing assignments. Drawing on fungi studies to develop ecology-informed metaphors, Xiqiao Wang traces how these students' writing unfolds alongside multilingual living, revealing the thickets of relationships with both human participants (peers, teachers, writing consultants) and nonhuman elements (trees, rivers, digital texts, writing technologies) that create opportunities for negotiating across differences.

This longitudinal qualitative study follows Morgan and Leo through their undergraduate careers, collecting rich ethnographic data across private, academic, and digital spaces. The resulting theoretical framework conceptualizes multilingual writing as simultaneously strategic, agentive, creative, diffused, contingent, and messy-a phenomenon shaped by dynamic interplay between ephemeral encounters and established practices. Employing chronotopic figuring as a methodological tool, Wang illuminates aspects of multilingual writing often elided in research: fleeting encounters that energize composition, reciprocal relationships that distribute writing labor, unexpected detours that redirect the writing process, and the layering of writing and identity practices across multiple historical trajectories. This approach moves beyond examining writing in isolated moments to trace how meaning emerges across languages, modes, and spacetimes.

Multilingual Writing in Entanglement offers crucial insights into how international students strategically and improvisationally reconfigure their semiotic and rhetorical repertoires to write multilingual lives into meaning. This work is influential for scholars and educators in composition, literacy studies, multilingual education, ESL, and linguistics.
ISBN9781646427611
Author Xiqiao Wang
PublisherUtah State University Press
GenreEducation
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages276
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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