Published: 2015-12-01

Multilingualism as an Edge

Larissa Aronin , Vasilis Politis

Abstract

The article presents a philosophical conceptualization of multilingualism. Philosophy’s general task is to subject human experience to reflective scrutiny and the experience of present day society has changed drastically. Multilingualism, as the vehicle of a new linguistic dispensation, plays a central role in it. We apply the metaphor ‘edge’ to explore the way multiple languages are deployed in, and intensively shape, the postmodern world. We also demonstrate how multilingualism is an edge, not only metaphorically, but involving true and real boundaries of various kinds, and all of them are essential for its nature.

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Aronin, L., & Politis, V. (2015). Multilingualism as an Edge. Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 1(1). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/TAPSLA/article/view/5110

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015)
Published: 2017-02-04


ISSN: 2450-5455
eISSN: 2451-2125
Ikona DOI 10.31261/tapsla

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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