The Invention of Multilingualism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108748384)

Multilingualism is a meaningful and capacious idea about human meaning-making practice, one with a promising, tumultuous, and flawed present - and a future worth caring for in research and public life. In this book, David Gramling presents original new insights into the topical subject of multilingualism, describing its powerful social, economic and political discourses. On one hand, it is under acute pressure to bear the demands of new global supply-chains, profit margins, and supranational unions, and on the other it is under pressure to make way for what some consider to be better descriptors of linguistic practice, such as translanguaging. The book shows how multilingualism is usefully able to encompass complex, divergent, and sometimes opposing experiences and ideas, in a wide array of planetary contexts - fictitious and real, political and social, North and South, colonial and decolonial, individual and collective, oppressive and liberatory, embodied and prosthetic, present and past.

Author: David Gramling
ISBN-10: 1108748384
ISBN-13: 9781108748384
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2021
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d