The Mobility Between Languages and the Fluxes of Globalization

Reviewing Paradigms, Transcending Paradoxes

Bibliographic Data

ID15123647
AuthorsAndré Storto (0000-0002-7157-8163, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)), André Coutinho Storto, Fabiana Poças Biondo, Fabiana Poças Biondo Araújo (0000-0002-0443-4987, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP))
Year2016
Volume1
Issue40
Pages77-89
Publication date2016-06-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista da Anpoll (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1414-7564 • E-ISSN: 1982-7830
PublisherANPOLL (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18309/anp.v1i40.1018
OpenAlexW2465254717
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

This article aims to raise some general questions related to mobility and the traffic between languages in times of globalization. While defining “globalization” as a set of discourses, we outline some of its internal contradictions and paradoxes as well as the equally contradictory role of the English language as a homogenizing and fragmentary force in this context. Next, taking the perspective of language as socio discursive practice, we situate the multilingual speaker and the interweaving between languages and meanings in a world dominated by intense patterns of diversity and fluxes of people and discourses. Finally, we turn to the context of the bi/multilingual classroom, trying to point out alternatives to monolingual assumptions underlying educational and pedagogical discourses and practices related to bi/multilingual education that prevent us from understanding multilingual speakers in all their complexity. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

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