ISBN:
9781108490306
,
9781108748384
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 262 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Key topics in applied linguistics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gramling, David, 1976- Invention of multilingualism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gramling, David, 1976 - The invention of multilingualism
DDC:
306.44/6
Keywords:
Multilingualism Social aspects
;
Multilingualism Social aspects
;
Language and languages Study and teaching
;
Language policy
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
;
Mehrsprachigkeit
Abstract:
"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."--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 217-248
DOI:
10.1017/978110874780667
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