“Presenting numerous analyses of diverse literacy practices, Xiaoye You offers a provocative argument for ‘cosmopolitan English,’ not merely as the statistical norm for a globalized English but also as an ethical rhetorical practice of translingual and transcultural literacy. In so doing, You contributes to recent challenges to English monolingualism in composition, comparative rhetorics, comparative literature, second language writing, and world Englishes.”—Bruce Horner, endowed chair in rhetoric and composition, University of Louisville
"Overall, this book makes a compelling case to challenge the modernist understanding of order, purity, and normality of English (Blommaert’s, Leppänen, Pahta, Räisänen, 2012). It urges researchers and educators to take a cosmopolitan turn, thereby re-conceptualizing the relations among language, identity, and literacy not from artificially discrete categories, but from the interaction and intersection of literacy practices in local and trans-local communities."--Zhiwei Wu, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
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