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262 pages "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."-- Introduction; 1. Right-sizing multilingualism; 2. The problem of value (14k); 3. Justice and injustice; 4. Hospicing late mono/lingualism; Epilogue: the multilingual undercommons. David Gramling Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Multilingualism Social aspects Multilingualism Social aspects United States Language and languages Study and teaching Language policy LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General 404.2 GRA Gramling, David, 1976- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021 (DLC) 2021024751 9781108748384 2021024750 DLC 210528 20230131123201.0 22058487 eng