" I have but one language?yet that language is not mine." This book intertwines theoretical reflection with historical and cultural particularity to enunciate,

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The first book in the humanities and social sciences to offer an extensive conceptual definition of monolingualism, based on literary, applied-linguistic, techn

Monolingualism-the idea that having just one language is the norm is only a recent invention, dating to late-eighteenth-century Europe. Yet it has become a domi

The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign lan