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The Invention of Monolingualism

By David Gramling

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
ISBN
1501318055, 9781501318054
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
861 kB (882121 bytes)
Pages
272\0
Time added
2017-02-14 16:30:34
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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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