Social Geography www.soc-geogr.net 1729-4274 1729-4312 4 1 2009 10.5194/sg-4-39-2009 http://www.soc-geogr.net/4/39/2009/ http://www.soc-geogr.net/4/39/2009/sg-4-39-2009.html http://www.soc-geogr.net/4/39/2009/sg-4-39-2009.pdf 39 46 2009-10-05 More than just translation: challenges and opportunities in translingual research L. G. Crane l.crane@sheffield.ac.uk M. B. Lombard E. M. Tenz Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND, UK With research in multilingual and intercultural settings becoming more and more common, issues around "translation" have attracted increasing attention in the social sciences. 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