... day by day, in thousands of other conversations such as these. In Stephen Levinson's words, Emanuel “Manny” Schegloff's dangerous idea was that “instead of thinking of social institutions [like, for instance, Palliative Care] ...
(On visualizations and other material manifestations of multilingualism, see also Hornsby 2018, Jessner et al. 2018, Zhang 2016). Predominant visual representations of the concept and experience of multilingualism are often fraught with ...
In this book, David Gramling presents original new insights into the topical subject of multilingualism, describing its powerful social, economic and political discourses.
Winner of the 2018 Book Award awarded by the American Association for Applied Linguistics The Invention of Monolingualism harnesses literary studies, applied linguisitics, translation studies, and cultural studies to offer a groundbreaking ...
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This book asks how we—as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers—can counter the abuse of language in our midst.
David Gramling. Conclusions The foregoing chapters have suggested that today's linguistic “new world order” is not primarily one of deep ideological ties or affective entrenchments between speakers and their own native languages, ...
Transit Deutschland: Debatten zu Nation und Migration
The first book in the humanities and social sciences to offer an extensive conceptual definition of monolingualism, based on literary, applied-linguistic, technological, and translational examples.
The institutional landscape that ushered in Kafka's literary figurations was thus one born primarily of a political conflict between monolingualism and multilingualism, not a cultural conflict between one language and another.
This book will be the first of its kind to offer intensive conversation analysis on patient-clinician interactions in the context of palliative medicine.
The book charts the highly contentious debates about migrant labor, human rights, multiculturalism, and globalization that have unfolded in Germany over the past fifty years—debates that resonate far beyond national borders.