Multilingualism And Modernity

Author : Laura Lonsdale
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319673288

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This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism exceeds the conventional bounds of modernism to become emblematic of the modern age. The book explores the confluence of multilingualism and modernity in the theme of barbarism, examining the significance of this theme to the relationship between language and modernity in the Spanish-speaking world, and the work of five authors in particular. These authors – Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Ernest Hemingway, José María Arguedas, Jorge Semprún and Juan Goytisolo – explore the stylistic and conceptual potential of the interaction between languages, including Spanish, French, English, Galician, Quechua and Arabic, their work reflecting the eclecticism of literary multilingualism while revealing its significance as a mode of response to modernity.

Author : Karen Bennett,Angelo Cattaneo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000574616

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Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period by Karen Bennett,Angelo Cattaneo Pdf

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it, but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized into the national languages that they would later become, and multilingualism was rife. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, languages were coming into contact with an intensity that they had never had before, influencing each other and throwing up all manner of hybrids and pidgins as peoples tried to communicate using the semiotic resources they had available. Of interest to linguists, literary scholars and historians, amongst others, this interdisciplinary volume explores the linguistic dynamics operating in Europe and beyond in the crucial centuries between 1400 and 1800. Assuming a state of individual, societal and functional multilingualism, when codeswitching was the norm, and languages themselves were fluid, unbounded and porous, it explores the shifting relationships that existed between various tongues in different geographical contexts, as well as some of the myths and theories that arose to make sense of them.

Author : J. Taylor-Batty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137367969

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Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction by J. Taylor-Batty Pdf

This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110471441

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Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon deeply reflects on language acquisition, language use, and sociolinguistic conditions in many different circumstances all over the world. Multilingualism was, however, certainly rather common already, if not especially, in the premodern world. For some time now, research has started to explore this issue through a number of specialized studies. The present volume continues with the investigation of multilingualism through a collection of case studies focusing on important examples in medieval and early modern societies, that is, in linguistic and cultural contact zones, such as England, Spain, the Holy Land, but also the New World. As all contributors confirm, the numerous cases of multilingualism discussed here indicate strongly that the premodern period knew considerably less barriers between people of different social classes, cultural background, and religious orientation. But we also have to acknowledge that already then human communication could fail because of linguistic hurdles which prevented mutual understanding in religious and cultural terms.

Author : Patrick Heinrich
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847696564

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The Making of Monolingual Japan by Patrick Heinrich Pdf

Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. This book explores the debates relating to language modernization from a language ideology perspective, and in doing so reveals the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity.

Author : Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317633044

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Global Portuguese by Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes Pdf

This book aims at deconstructing and problematizing linguistic ideologies related to Portuguese in late modernity and questioning the theoretical presuppositions which have led us to call Portuguese ‘a language.’ Such an endeavor is crucial when we know that Portuguese is a language which is increasingly internationalized, used as the official language in four continents (in ten countries) and which has come to play a relevant role in the so-called linguistic market on the basis of the geopolitical transformations in a multipolar world. The book covers a wide range of social, political and historical contexts in which ‘Portuguese’ is used (in Brazil, Canada, East-Timor, England, Portugal, Mozambique and Uruguay), and considers diverse linguistic practices. Through this critique, contributors chart new directions for research on language ideologies and language practices (including research related to Portuguese and to other ‘languages’) and consider ways of developing new conceptual compasses that are better attuned to the sociolinguistic realities of the late modern era, in which people, texts and languages are increasingly in movement through national borders and those of digital networks of communication.

Author : Quentin Williams,Ana Deumert,Tommaso M. Milani
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800415331

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Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship by Quentin Williams,Ana Deumert,Tommaso M. Milani Pdf

This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies. The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and radical social transformations in democracies in the north and south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics. Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.

Author : J. Blommaert,S. Leppänen,P. Pahta,T. Virkkula,Tiina Räisänen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137283566

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Dangerous Multilingualism by J. Blommaert,S. Leppänen,P. Pahta,T. Virkkula,Tiina Räisänen Pdf

Focuses on the endangering effects of language-ideological processes. This book looks at the challenges imposed by globalization and super-diversity on the nation state and its language situations and ideologies, and demonstrates how many of its problems rise from the tension between late-modern diversity and the (pre-)modernist responses to it.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110471441

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Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon deeply reflects on language acquisition, language use, and sociolinguistic conditions in many different circumstances all over the world. Multilingualism was, however, certainly rather common already, if not especially, in the premodern world. For some time now, research has started to explore this issue through a number of specialized studies. The present volume continues with the investigation of multilingualism through a collection of case studies focusing on important examples in medieval and early modern societies, that is, in linguistic and cultural contact zones, such as England, Spain, the Holy Land, but also the New World. As all contributors confirm, the numerous cases of multilingualism discussed here indicate strongly that the premodern period knew considerably less barriers between people of different social classes, cultural background, and religious orientation. But we also have to acknowledge that already then human communication could fail because of linguistic hurdles which prevented mutual understanding in religious and cultural terms.

Author : Joshua L. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195337006

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Accented America by Joshua L. Miller Pdf

Accented America is a sweeping study of U.S. literature between 1890-1950 that reveals a long history of English-Only nationalism: the political claim that U.S. citizens must speak a nationally distinctive form of English. This perspective presents U.S. literary works written between the 1890s and 1940s as playfully, painfully, and ambivalently engaged with language politics, thereby rewiring both narrative form and national identity. The United States has always been a densely polyglot nation, but efforts to prove the existence of a nationally specific form of English turn out to be a development of particular importance to interwar modernism. If the concept of a singular, coherent, and autonomous 'American language' seemed merely provocative or ironic in 1919 when H.L. Mencken emblazoned the phrase on his philological study, within a short period of time it would come to seem simultaneously obvious and impossible. Considering the continuing presence of fierce public debates over U.S. English and domestic multilingualisms demonstrates the symbolic and material implications of such debates in naturalization and citizenship law, presidential rhetoric, academic language studies, and the artistic renderings of novelists. Against the backdrop of the period's massive demographic changes, Accented America brings a broadly multi-ethnic set of writers into conversation, including Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Henry Roth, Nella Larsen, John Dos Passos, Lionel Trilling, Américo Paredes, and Carlos Bulosan. These authors shared an acute sense of linguistic standardization during the interwar era and contend with the defamiliarizing sway of radical experimentation with invented and improper literary vernaculars. Mixing languages, these authors spurn expectations for phonological exactitude to develop multilingual literary aesthetics. Rather than confirming the powerfully seductive subtext of monolingualism-that those who speak alike are ethically and politically likeminded-multilingual modernists composed interwar novels that were characteristically American because, not in spite, of their synthetic syntaxes and enduring strangeness.

Author : Danuta Gabryś-Barker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031523717

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Modern Approaches to Researching Multilingualism by Danuta Gabryś-Barker Pdf

Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Linda Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108808859

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Multilingualism and Identity by Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Linda Fisher Pdf

The analysis and understanding of multilingualism, and its relationship to identity in the face of globalization, migration and the increasing dominance of English as a lingua franca, makes it a complex and challenging problem that requires insights from a range of disciplines. With reference to a variety of languages and contexts, this book offers fascinating insights into multilingual identity from a team of world-renowned scholars, working from a range of different theoretical and methodological perspectives. Three overarching themes are explored – situatedness, identity practices, and investment – and detailed case studies from different linguistic and cultural contexts are included throughout. The chapter authors' consideration of 'multilingualism-as-resource' challenges the conception of 'multilingualism-as-problem', which has dogged so much political thinking in late modernity. The studies offer a critical lens on the types of linguistic repertoire that are celebrated and valued, and introduce the policy implications of their findings for education and wider social issues.

Author : Kristine Horner,Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788925068

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Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging by Kristine Horner,Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain Pdf

Certain forms of mobility and multilingualism tend to be portrayed as problematic in the public sphere, while others are considered to be unremarkable. Divided into three thematic sections, this book explores the contestation of spaces and the notion of borders, examines the ways in which heritage and authenticity are linked or challenged, and interrogates the intersections between mobility and hierarchies and the ways that language can be linked to notions of belonging and aspirations for mobility. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe, it explores how language functions as both site of struggle and as a means of overcoming struggle. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation.

Author : James Reay Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030058104

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Multilingualism and the Twentieth-Century Novel by James Reay Williams Pdf

This book argues that the Anglophone novel in the twentieth century is, in fact, always multilingual. Rooting its analysis in modern Europe and the Caribbean, it recognises that monolingualism, not multilingualism, is a historical and global rarity, and argues that this fact must inform our study of the novel, even when it remains notionally Anglophone. Drawing principally upon four authors – Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, Wilson Harris and Junot Díaz – this study argues that a close engagement with the novel reveals a series of ways to apprehend, depict and theorise various kinds of language diversity. In so doing, it reveals the presence of the multilingual as a powerful shaping force for the direction of the novel from 1900 to the present day which cuts across and complicates current understandings of modernist, postcolonial and global literatures.

Author : Rajinder Dudrah,Katrin Kohl,Andrew Gosler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 178374930X

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Creative Multilingualism by Rajinder Dudrah,Katrin Kohl,Andrew Gosler Pdf

Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto is a welcome contribution to the field of modern languages, highlighting the intricate relationship between multilingualism and creativity, and, crucially, reaching beyond an Anglo-centric view of the world.