Key Topics in Applied Linguistics #: The Invention of Multilingualism

Key Topics in Applied Linguistics #: The Invention of Multilingualism
David Gramling
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17 Jun 2021 UK
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9781108748384
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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.

Invention of Multilingualism, The

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.
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ISBN-13: 9781108748384
Published: 17 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 326g
Pages: 280

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