Multilingualism as an Edge

• Authors: Larissa Aronin , Vasilis Politis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

philosophy; multilingualism; boundaries; edge

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Śląski
• Journal: Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2015-12-01

Contributors

author

Larissa Aronin

author

Vasilis Politis