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Critical Polyglot Studies: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

Autor Carlos Yebra López, Usman Chohan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 feb 2025
This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked process of its commoditization over the last twenty years and offering a counterpoint to mainstream positivist treatment of serial language learning.
First, from a diagnostic standpoint, the book examines the rise and consolidation of the Polyglot Community in the sociopolitical and economic context of its gradual transformation into and partial overlap with the Polyglot Industry and its ideological tenets (The Polyglot Matrix). Second, from a prognostic standpoint, the book posits Critical Polyglot Studies (CPS) as a much-needed counter to the many theoretical and practical shortcomings of the Polyglot Industry-cum-Matrix, presenting the main programmatic points and illustrative best practices and institutional case studies of this alternative paradigm. CPS is conceived as both a research orientation and as a strategic attempt to elicit debate and draw in a wider range of polyglossia scholars, offering readers with actionable tools to contribute to this emerging academic and activist endeavour.
Constituting the first critical and systematic analysis of polyglossia as a globalized phenomenon, this book will be of interest to scholars of linguistics, cultural studies, critical theory, and sociology.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032697741
ISBN-10: 1032697741
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 10
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Contents
                                                                                                   
List of Tables                                                                                                                 
List of Figures                                                                                           
List of Acronyms                                                                                      
Preface                                                                                                                            
Chapter 1: Introduction
                    Introduction                                                                                                                  
                    Exposing the Colonial Origins
                                        and Mediation of Mainstream
                                        Polyglossia                                                                                                 
                                        Rethinking Polyglossia as a
                                        North Atlantic Universal                                                                      
Enter the Polyglot Community                                                          
The (D)evolution of the Polyglot
                    Community into the Polyglot
                    Industry-cum-Matrix                                                                             
The Case for Critical Polyglot
                     Studies                                                                                                       
CPS’ Theoretical, Methodological and
Normative Commitments                            *                                                        
Theory                                                                                                         
                                        Ontology                                                            
                    Epistemology                                                                        
                                        Methodology                                                                       
Normativity                                                                                               
Outline of this Book                                                                                                   
Part 1: The Polyglot Industry: A Cartography
Chapter 2:  The Polyglot Community: Genealogy and Nature
                    Introduction                                                                                                                  
 
Enter Polyglossia:  Commoditizing an
                    Ethnonational Identity Marker                                                                             

                                        The (Neo)colonial/Ethnonational
                                        Rationality                                                                                                  
The (Neo)colonial/Ethnonational
                    Partial Shift towards and Overlap
                    with Neoliberalism                                                             
Enter The Polyglot Community: General
                    Normative Idea and Material Conditions                                                                              
The Mid-to-Late 1990s: From
                    Internet Relay Chat to the World                                                     
The 2000s: The Early YouTube
                    ‘Polyglots’ and the Tension
                    between Showmanship and
                    Community Building                                                                              
The 2010s: The Road to ‘Global’
                     Hybridity                                                                                
Conclusion                                                                                                                     
Chapter 3: The Polyglot Industry: Experts and Institutions
Understanding the Polyglot Industry: When,
                    Why and How it Works                                                                                            
Commercializing the Polyglot Community’s 
                    Attention                                                                                                   
The rise of the attention economy                                                                     
The Fourth Screen: Web 2.0 and the
                    Smartphones (2010s to Present)                                                                         
Social networks                                                                                                           
                                        YouTube                                                             
                                        Facebook                                                           
Italki                                                                                         
X (Twitter)                                                                             
Language Learning Platforms                                                            
                    Duolingo                                                             
                    Glossika                                                                                  
                    uTalk                                                                                        
                    How Language Learning
                    Platforms and Social
                    Networks Converge                                                           
Polyglot Gatherings                                                                               
                    Polyglot Gatherings (annual)                     
                    Polyglot Gatherings (weekly)                    
                    How Polyglot Gatherings Converge
                    with Social Networks, Language
                    Learning Apps and Print Media                                    
Print Media                                                                                                                   
                                        1950 to 1995: Polyglossia avant
                                                            la lettre                                                                                   
                                        Mid 1990s-2005: Early Recognition
                                                            and Exploration                                                                   
2005-2015: The Rise and
                    Consolidation of Print Media as a
                    Polyglot Industry Sector                                                  
2015 to present: Diversity, Inclusion,
                     Hyperpolyglossia and AI                                                 
Conclusion: Saving the Polyglot Community from the
                     Language-Industrial Complex                                                                               
Chapter 4: The Polyglot Matrix: The Ideology of the Polyglot Industry
Introduction                                                                                                                  
Polyglot Matrix Myths                                                                                              
                    Myth #1: (Non)nativespeakerism                                                   
                                        Nationalism/colonialism                                                   
                                        Performativity                                                                      
                                        Beyond native-speakerism                         
                                        L1 Speakers as Role Models,
                                                             L1+n Speakers as Deficient                        
                    Myth #2: Accentism                                                                              
                    Myth #3: Foreignness                                                                           
                    Myth # 4:  Thinking in Languages                                                     
                    Myth # 5:  Languages as Countable                            
                    Myth # 6:  Code-switching                                              
                    Myth # 7:  Neo-Whorfianism                                         
                    Myth # 8:  Flaggism                                                            
                    Myth # 9:  Multilingual exceptionalism                     
                    Myth # 10:  Necessarily Positive
                                        Correlation Between Polyglossia
                                        and Tolerance                                                                                          
                    Conclusion                                                                                                 
Part 2: Critical Polyglot Studies: A Roadmap
Chapter 5: Programmatic Points and Best Practices
Programmatic Points                                                                                                
Theory                                                                                                                             
                    Ontology                                                                                
                    Epistemology                                                                                            
                    Methodology                                                                                           
Political Economy                                                                                   
Normativity                                                                                                                   
Best Practices                                                                                                               
Social Networks                                                                                                          
Language Learning Applications                                                                           
Polyglot Meetings                                                                                  
Print Media                                                                                                                   
Concluding Remarks                                                                                                  
Chapter 6: Institutional Case Studies
The Hyperpolyglot Activist                                                                  
                                        Introduction                                                                          
Positioning vis-à-vis
                    the Hegemonic
                    Rationalities                                                                          
                                        Polyglot Industry
                                                            Intervention                                                                         
                                        Polyglot Matrix
                                                            Intervention                                                                         
HYPIA: The International Association
                     of Hyperpolyglots                                                                                  
                                        Introduction                                                                          
Positioning vis-à-vis
                    the Hegemonic
                    Rationalities                                                                          
                                        Polyglot Industry
                                                            Intervention                                                                         
                                        Polyglot Matrix
                                                            Intervention                                                                         
Final Words                                                                                                                   
Index                                                                                     

Notă biografică

Carlos Yebra López is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton. He is also founder of The Hyperpolyglot Activist and Ladino 21 Community Interest Company, and the Director of Research at The International Association of Hyperpolyglots (HYPIA).
Usman W. Chohan is an international academic who serves as Advisor on Economic Affairs and National Development at the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS), one of Pakistan’s premier research-based think tanks, where he was a founding director.  He is also the founder and serves as President of the International Association of Hyperpolyglots (HYPIA), the largest association of hyperpolyglot language speakers in the world.
 

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This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked process of its commoditization over the last twenty years and offering a counterpoint to mainstream positivist treatment of serial language learning.