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Beyond the mother tongue : the postmonolingual condition /

"This book is a study of the workings of a monolingual paradigm and of multilingual attempts to overcome it. It argues that monolingualism--the idea that having just one language is the norm--is a recent invention dating back only to late-eighteenth-century Europe, yet has become a dominant, if...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yildiz, Yasemin, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Beyond the Mother Tongue?
  • The Uncanny Mother Tongue
  • The Foreign in the Mother Tongue
  • Detaching from the Mother Tongue
  • Surviving the Mother Tongue
  • Inventing a Motherless Tongue
  • Conclusion: Toward a Multilingual Paradigm?