Invention of Multilingualism

Explores what multilingualism means today, in a historical moment when it is under intense discursive and technological pressure.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Right-sizing multilingualism; 2. The problem of value (14k); 3. Justice and injustice; 4. Hospicing late mono/lingualism; Epilogue: the multilingual undercommons.

About the author

David Gramling is Professor and Head in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada (unceded Musqueam territory). He won the American Association of Applied Linguistics Book Award in 2018 for his book The Invention of Monolingualism.

Summary

This fascinating book explores how we reason about the value and status of multilingualism today, where we do so, and in relation to which persons, communities, and languages. The critical approach to multilingualism that this book traces is one that openly intends to strengthen the usability of this visionary concept.

Product details

• Authors: David Gramling, David (University of Arizona) Gramling, David (University of British Columbia Gramling, Gramling David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781108490306
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49030-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Key Topics in Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism