ABSTRACT
Metrolingualism is about the connectivity, diversity, and mobility of people, language, activities, and artifacts in the city. Within the domain of sociolinguistics, a significant number of studies deal with the phenomenon under the name of 'multilingualism'. Using Tokyo as a research site, this chapter scrutinizes a number of basic assumptions about multiple language use by rethinking what it means to mobilize particular linguistic resources Japanese, English, Italian, French in an urban 'multilingual' context within globalization by explicating metrolingualism. While metrolingualism admits ludic possibility in inventing new language practices and identities in the late modern context, there are also serious matters of identity politics at work here in metrolingualism. The chapter examines the creative and productive linguistic practices and resources and It argues that metrolingualism is open to creative linguistic practices across borders of culture, history, and politics and offers a way to move beyond these terms by focusing on everyday-ness.
