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Date: 13-Oct-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Multilingualism and History: Pavlenko (ed.)(2023)


Title: Multilingualism and History
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781009236256

editor: Aneta Pavlenko
Hardback: ISBN: 9781009236256 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781009236256 Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781009236256 Price: Europe EURO 99.20
Abstract:

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'.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)

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