{"product_id":"linguistic-citizenship-and-vulnerability-quentin-williams-9781350169937","title":"Linguistic Citizenship and Vulnerability: The Making and Unmaking of Language and Selves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining Hannah Arendt's concepts of 'pluriversality' and 'natality' through a linguistic lens, this book explores their implications for language. \u003c\/b\u003eHighlighting discourses of vulnerability, chapters critically approach, dissect, and analyse a range of issues related to the practice, or avoidance, of multilingualism and how this contributes to states of unpredictability and exposure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring in detail how forms of vulnerability are semiotically constituted out of the pluriversality and multivocality of everyday engagements, this book examines how vulnerability is expressed across modalities. Viewing Hannah Arendt's concepts of pluriversality and natality through a linguistic lens, it casts light on how individuals and groups made vulnerable enact and counteract or contest vulnerability in acts of 'linguistic citizenship'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCritically dissecting and analysing a range of issues related to multilingualism, chapters argue that vulnerability offers a way to engage productively with others and 'redesign' the self, and that finding ways to engage with pluriversality and unpredictability productively is crucial for complex societies. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eLinguistic Citizenship and Vulnerability\u003c\/i\u003e puts forward a strong case for adopting the concepts of pluriversality and vulnerability into the wider framework of linguistic citizenship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Quentin Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350169935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350169937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d","brand":"Quentin Williams","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44074533519615,"sku":"9781350169937","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3305f0ac-4026-45ab-b05b-bb17fd63d55e.jpg?v=1685454300","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/linguistic-citizenship-and-vulnerability-quentin-williams-9781350169937","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}