TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gramling,David
TI  - The invention of multilingualism
T2  - Key topics in applied linguistics
SN  - 9781108748384
U1  - 404.2 GRA 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Multilingualism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Language policy
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; 1. Right-sizing multilingualism; 2. The problem of value (14k); 3. Justice and injustice; 4. Hospicing late mono/lingualism; Epilogue: the multilingual undercommons
N2  - "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."--
ER  -