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This book will be the first of its kind to offer intensive
conversation analysis on patient-clinician interactions in the
context of palliative medicine. The book focuses on a series of
individual case studies of conversations that revolve, in each
case, around one key critical term that is often evoked or
understood differently by clinicians and patients.
This book asks how we-as citizens, immigrants, activists,
teachers-can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we
take back the power of language from those who flaunt that power to
silence or erase us and our fellows? In search of answers,
Linguistic Disobedience recalls ages and situations that made
critiquing, correcting, and caring for language essential for
survival. From turn-of-the-twentieth-century Central Europe to the
miseries of the Third Reich, from the Movement for Black Lives to
the ongoing effort to decolonize African languages, the study and
practice of linguistic disobedience have been crucial. But what are
we to do today, when reactionary supremacists and authoritarians
are screen-testing their own forms of so-called disobedience to
quash oppositional social justice movements and their languages?
Blending lyric essay with cultural criticism, historical analysis,
and applied linguistics, Linguistic Disobedience offers suggestions
for a hopeful pathway forward in violent times.
Winner of the 2018 Book Award awarded by the American Association
for Applied Linguistics The Invention of Monolingualism 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.
Multilingualism is a meaningful and capacious idea about human
meaning-making practice, one with a promising, tumultuous, and
flawed present - and a future worth caring for in research and
public life. In this book, David Gramling presents original new
insights into the topical subject of multilingualism, describing
its powerful social, economic and political discourses. On one
hand, it is under acute pressure to bear the demands of new global
supply-chains, profit margins, and supranational unions, and on the
other it is under pressure to make way for what some consider to be
better descriptors of linguistic practice, such as translanguaging.
The book shows how multilingualism is usefully able to encompass
complex, divergent, and sometimes opposing experiences and ideas,
in a wide array of planetary contexts - fictitious and real,
political and social, North and South, colonial and decolonial,
individual and collective, oppressive and liberatory, embodied and
prosthetic, present and past.
Multilingualism is a meaningful and capacious idea about human
meaning-making practice, one with a promising, tumultuous, and
flawed present - and a future worth caring for in research and
public life. In this book, David Gramling presents original new
insights into the topical subject of multilingualism, describing
its powerful social, economic and political discourses. On one
hand, it is under acute pressure to bear the demands of new global
supply-chains, profit margins, and supranational unions, and on the
other it is under pressure to make way for what some consider to be
better descriptors of linguistic practice, such as translanguaging.
The book shows how multilingualism is usefully able to encompass
complex, divergent, and sometimes opposing experiences and ideas,
in a wide array of planetary contexts - fictitious and real,
political and social, North and South, colonial and decolonial,
individual and collective, oppressive and liberatory, embodied and
prosthetic, present and past.
Winner of the 2018 Book Award awarded by the American Association
for Applied Linguistics The Invention of Monolingualism 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.
""Germany in Transit" is a much-needed sourcebook that vividly
represents the crucial debates about the integration of
'foreigners' in Germany. Written for all levels of readers, from
school teachers and college students to general readers."--Werner
Sollors, author of "Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in
American Culture"
"This book is first-rate: historically accurate, thickly textured,
and methodologically cutting-edge. Even experts in migration
studies and German studies will be inspired by the astonishing
range of materials gathered in this important yet readily
accessible book."--Leslie A. Adelson, author of "The Turkish Turn
in Contemporary German Literature: Toward a New Critical Grammar of
Migration"
"A path-breaking book about postwar Germany on its way to Europe
and the modern world. Precisely researched and creatively
organized, this is indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to
take part in the conversation about cultural diversity. It is
perhaps telling that no such book has yet been published in
Germany; the perspective from abroad opens new horizons."--Zafer
[enocak, author of "Atlas of a Tropical Germany: Essays on Politics
and Culture, 1990-1998"
"This striking assembly of texts tells the real story of postwar
normalization. For the German lands have always bid welcome and,
after the monochrome years of the Third Reich and its immediate
aftermath, once again host a multiplicity of ethnics, cultures, and
religions. Read and see for yourself what contemporary Germany is
all about."--Michael Geyer, author of "The Power of Intellectuals
in Contemporary Germany"
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