The invention of multilingualism

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The invention of multilingualism

David Gramling

(Key topics in applied linguistics / series editors Claire Kramsch and Zhu Hua)

Cambridge University Press, 2021

  • pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-248) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Multilingualism is a meaningful and capacious idea about human meaning-making practice, one with a promising, tumultuous, and flawed present - and a future worth caring for in research and public life. In this book, David Gramling presents original new insights into the topical subject of multilingualism, describing its powerful social, economic and political discourses. On one hand, it is under acute pressure to bear the demands of new global supply-chains, profit margins, and supranational unions, and on the other it is under pressure to make way for what some consider to be better descriptors of linguistic practice, such as translanguaging. The book shows how multilingualism is usefully able to encompass complex, divergent, and sometimes opposing experiences and ideas, in a wide array of planetary contexts - fictitious and real, political and social, North and South, colonial and decolonial, individual and collective, oppressive and liberatory, embodied and prosthetic, present and past.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. Right-sizing multilingualism
  • 2. The problem of value (14k)
  • 3. Justice and injustice
  • 4. Hospicing late mono/lingualism
  • Epilogue: the multilingual undercommons.

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  • NCID
    BC08764073
  • ISBN
    • 9781108748384
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 262 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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