Explores what multilingualism means today, in a historical moment when it is under intense discursive and technological pressure.
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.
Intended to spark further research and discussion, this book appeals to young people interested in languages, language learning and cultural exchange.
First of all, what do we mean by multilingualism; and, secondly, what do we mean by thematising? 2. What does it mean to talk about multilingualism? “Europe invented multilingualism, it can reinvent it and indeed it has to” (Heller ...
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"This innovative collection explores critical issues in understanding multilingualism as a defining dimension of identity creation and negotiation in contemporary social life.
This book questions assumptions about the nature of language.
(Khubchandani provides an excellent example of post-colonial Indian interpretation of multilingualism.) Ranger, T. (1983) 'The invention of tradition in colonial Africa', in E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (eds) The Invention of Tradition, ...
This book shows how concepts of ‘language’ and ‘multilingualism’ look different when viewed from Belize, Lagos, or London, and asks how ideas about literature and literary form must be remade in a contemporary cultural marketplace ...
The upshot of all three processes combined was the invention of a set of narratives emphasising the role of power to save, rescue and develop other t;people (Mignolo, 2011). These practices and discourses on languages, cultures and ...
Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned “mother tongue” about another language (Franz Kafka); mobilizing words of foreign derivation as part of a multilingual ...