Rainer Guldin

Metaphors of Multilingualism

Changing Attitudes towards Language Diversity in Literature, Linguistics and Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781138607507
• ISBN-10: 1138607509
• Artikelnr.: 59423830

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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