The Invention of Monolingualism
| Author | : David Gramling |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2016-10-06 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781501318085 |
| ISBN-13 | : 150131808X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (08X Downloads) |
Download or read book The Invention of Monolingualism written by David Gramling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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