02677cam a22004098i 4500 19289 19289 22058487 OSt 20230131123201.0 210528s2021 enk b 001 0 eng 2021024750 9781108748384 DLC eng rda DLC pcc n-us--- 404.2 GRA 23 Gramling, David, 1976- author. The invention of multilingualism / David Gramling 2109 Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 262 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Key topics in applied linguistics 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. "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."-- Provided by publisher. Multilingualism Social aspects. Multilingualism Social aspects United States. Language and languages Study and teaching. Language policy. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General bisacsh Online version: Gramling, David, 1976- Invention of multilingualism Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108780667 (DLC) 2021024751 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc RFT 0 0 ddc 0 0 R-16/2 AIISH AIISH 2023-01-31 0 404.2 GRA 23223 2023-01-31 00:00:00 2023-01-31 RFT