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The invention of multilingualism / David Gramling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gramling, David, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Key topics in applied linguistics.
- Key topics in applied linguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multilingualism--Social aspects.
- Multilingualism.
- Language policy.
- Language and languages--Study and teaching.
- Language and languages.
- Multilingualism--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Right-Sizing Multilingualism
- 2 The Problem of Value
- 3 Justice and Injustice
- 4 Hospicing Late Mono/lingualism
- Epilogue The Multilingual Undercommons
- Glossary
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jun 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-80943-X
- 1-108-80462-4
- 1-108-78066-0
- OCLC:
- 1257250356
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