Metaphors of Multilingualism: Changing Attitudes in Towards Language Diversity Literature, Linguistics and Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781032237275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 292 str.

Rainer Guldin

Opis

Metaphors of Multilingualism explores changing attitudes towards multilingualism by focusing on shifts both in the choice and in the use of metaphors.This is ground-breaking reading for scholars and researchers in the fields of linguistics, literature, philosophy, media studies, anthropology, history and cultural studies.

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction

Part I Bodies

1. The Patched-Up Face of Multilingualism

2. Organic Metaphors of Language

3. Grotesque Body Images

4. Body Parts: Tongues and Eyes

5. The Embodied Plurilingual Self

Part II Family Ties

6. Mother-Tongues and Linguistic Family Trees

7. Beyond Bilingual Bigamy

8. Interlingual Predicaments

9. Linguistic Promiscuity and Incestuous Bisexualism

10. Adoptive and Stepmother Tongues

Part III Spaces

11. Territorializing National Languages

12. The Centrifugal Forces of Variation and Stratification

13. Continents and Archipelagos

14. The Ocean of Heteroglossia

15. Networks and Constellations

Conclusion

References

Index

O autorze

Rainer Guldin is lecturer for German Culture and Language at the Faculties of Communication Sciences and Economics of the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano (Switzerland). His publications include Vilém Flusser (1920-1991). Ein Leben in der Bodenlosigkeit. Biographie (2017) and Translation as Metaphor (2016).