Claiming multilingualism as the natural state of social communities

What is it about?

Monolingualism is an ideology that orchestrates linguistic practices so that one community may prevail over others when sharing the same social space. The practice of power against non-dominant linguistic communities establishes a hierarchy between languages. Dominant and subordinate languages exchange places in different contexts, which reveals the politically motivated nature of linguistic arrangements. The book offers a description of different contexts where linguistic policies are used to exert power over specific communities, and points to a general awakening to the true multilingual nature of human practices, placing an emphasis on non-dominant languages and subaltern linguistic practices.

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