Multilingualism and History - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009236261 ISBN 13 : 9781009236263

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

We often hear that our world 'is more multilingual than ever before', but is it true? This book shatters that cliché. It is the first volume to shine light on the millennia-long history of multilingualism as a social, institutional and demographic phenomenon. Its fifteen chapters, written in clear, accessible language by prominent historians, classicists, and sociolinguists, span the period from the third century BC to the present day, and range from ancient Rome and Egypt to medieval London and Jerusalem, from Russian, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires to modern Norway, Ukraine, and Spain. Going against the grain of traditional language histories, these thought-provoking case studies challenge stereotypical beliefs, foreground historic normativity of institutional multilingualism and language mixing, examine the transformation of polyglot societies into monolingual ones, and bring out the cognitive and affective dissonance in present-day orientations to multilingualism, where 'celebrations of linguistic diversity' coexist uneasily with creation of 'language police'.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Aneta Pavlenko is Research Professor at the Center for Multilingualism at the University of Oslo. She is Past President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and winner of the 2006 BAAL Book of the Year award, 2009 TESOL Award for Distinguished Research and the 2021 AAAL Research article award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009236261
• ISBN 13: 9781009236263
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Pavlenko Aneta
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