{"product_id":"9781501318054","title":"The Invention of Monolingualism","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Invention of Monolingualism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): David Gramling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Monolingualism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary and illuminating book, spanning literary and cultural studies, applied linguistics, social and cultural theory, and more. Original, brilliantly presented, provocative, and extremely timely, \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Monolingualism\u003c\/i\u003e is likely to be a blockbuster with its far sighted argument—a little in the vein of Michel Foucault's \u003ci\u003eThe Order of Things\u003c\/i\u003e in terms of scope and boldness. It will be of great interest to not only literary and cultural studies readers, but also to applied linguists and social scientists as well.\" -\u003ci\u003e Claire Kramsch, Professor of German and Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Every now and then a book comes along which is simply compelling with its breadth and depth of argument, its dazzling examples and its sheer boldness of vision. This is one of the most important books to be written on languages, monolingualism and multilingualism I have read. It will make you think about monolingualism and about languages in quite new ways.\" - \u003ci\u003eAlison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, University of Glasgow, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501318054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40616226062542,"sku":"9781501318054","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_1dd165fb-25cc-4dd7-bc38-e887b6b21bd1.jpg?v=1638320643","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501318054","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}