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The Invention of Monolingualism

By David Gramling

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
ISBN
1501318055, 9781501318054
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1772201 bytes)
Pages
272\266
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-02-14 16:32:11

Description

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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