The Invention of Monolingualism
- ISBN-10
- 1501318055
- ISBN-13
- 9781501318054
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-10-06
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Author
- David Gramling
Description
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.
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