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The Invention of Monolingualism

The Invention of Monolingualism

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Literary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 1501318047
ISBN13: 9781501318047
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 6 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Winner of the 2018 Book Award awarded by the American Association for Applied Linguistics

The Invention of Monolingualism
harnesses literary studies, applied linguisitics, translation studies, and cultural studies to offer a groundbreaking investigation of monolingualism. After briefly describing what monolingual means in scholarship and public discourse, and the pejorative effects this common use may have on non-elite and cosmopolitan populations alike, David Gramling sets out to discover a new conception of monolingualism. Along the way, he explores how writers-Turkish, Latin-American, German, and English-language-have in recent decades confronted monolingualism in their texts, and how they have critiqued the World Literature industry's increasing hunger for translatable novels.

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