ABSTRACT
After Englishes', asks readers to reconsider how, in an era when postmonolithicism is emerging as the new norm, they can adapt their metadiscourse of linguistic plurality beyond questions of which Englishes are or are not legitimate. The scholarship on translingualism, whether it has adopted this label or not, has asked readers to recognize the legitimacy of translingual practices, including peripheralized Englishes, at times suggesting that the translingual is superior to the non-translingual. There is a striking parallel in the practice of scholars legitimizing translingual practices, including peripheralized Englishes. The disconnect between scholarly discourses and public opinion of language suggests that we may also need to rethink the very question of institutionality. As an illustration of how to promote research beyond the academy, Appadurai describes co-founding PUKAR, Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research, a nonprofit community-based organization in Mumbai that promotes research across the arts and humanities in relation to questions of economic development and urban planning.
