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Multilingualism and History (Hardcover)
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Multilingualism and History (Hardcover)
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We often hear that our world 'is more multilingual than ever
before', but is it true? This book shatters that cliche. 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'.
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