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A descriptive qualitative framework was employed whereby written explanations and interpretation consolidate visual photographic representations to provide an insight into the translingual practices of Japanese society.īased on a descriptive qualitative framework, in which emphasis was placed on understanding the identified phenomena in their own right through analysis of emergent descriptions rather than predetermined options, 10 instances of translanguaging practices were analyzed in depth throughout this paper under six different themes: simple translation, intersentential practices, intrasentential, practices interlexical practices, intralexical practices, and semiotic-reliant practices. This paper takes a visual ethnography approach to examine an assortment of concrete photographic materials collected by the researcher. It also attempts to address the question of why Japanese people largely fail to recognize their own translingual status despite their ability to live and act in an increasingly translingual society with few communicative issues. This paper’s objective was to shed light on the largely unrecognized translanguaging practices prevalent throughout Japanese society. Consequently, very few Japanese people consider themselves bilingual, let alone translingual however, the reality of Japanese society would suggest otherwise.
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Japan has traditionally been thought of as a linguistically homogenous and therefore monolingual society. Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions