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Untying the Mother Tongue

Buch | Softcover
VI, 252 Seiten
2023
ICI Berlin Press (Verlag)
978-3-96558-049-7 (ISBN)
CHF 20,95 inkl. MwSt
Untying the Mother Tongue explores what it might mean today to speak of someone's attachment to a particular, primary language. Traditional conceptions of mother tongue are often seen as an expression of the ideology of a European nation-state. Yet, current celebrations of multilingualism reflect the recent demands of global capitalism, raising other challenges. The contributions from international scholars on literature, philosophy, and culture, analyze and problematize the concept of ‘mother tongue’, rethinking affective and cognitive attachments to language while deconstructing its metaphysical, capitalist, and colonialist presuppositions.
Untying the Mother Tongue explores what it might mean today to speak of someone's attachment to a particular, primary language. Traditional conceptions of mother tongue are often seen as an expression of the ideology of a European nation-state. Yet, current celebrations of multilingualism reflect the recent demands of global capitalism, raising other challenges. The contributions from international scholars on literature, philosophy, and culture, analyze and problematize the concept of ‘mother tongue’, rethinking affective and cognitive attachments to language while deconstructing its metaphysical, capitalist, and colonialist presuppositions.

Introduction / Antonio Castore, Federico Dal Bo
But You Don’t Get Used to Anything / Deborah Achtenberg
Philosophy’s Mother Envy / Michael Eng
‘My Mother Tongue Is a Foreign Language’ / Federico Dal Bo
The Mother Tongue at School / Jakob Norberg
Scarspeak / Juliane Prade-Weiss
The Shuffling of Feet on the Pavement / Teresa Prudente
‘I know you can cant’ / Jeffrey Champlin
The Mother Tongue of Love and Loss / Caroline Sauter
The Staircase Wit / Antonio Castore
Wandering Words / Libera Pisano

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cultural Inquiry ; 26
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte Affect • Derrida, Jacques • Diaspora • exile • Language acquisition • Linguistics • literary criticsm • mother tongue • Multilingualism • Philosophy • resistance
ISBN-10 3-96558-049-3 / 3965580493
ISBN-13 978-3-96558-049-7 / 9783965580497
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