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Modern languages
- Title
- Modern languages / Katrin Kohl.
- Author
- Kohl, Katrin M. (Katrin Maria), 1956-
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2021.
- ©2021
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 21-100 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 159 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- It might seem as if globalization is making the whole world speak English. But spend time in any major city and you are likely to encounter a cornucopia of languages. Even monolingual people have different ways of speaking to their bosses or teachers, their intimate friends or their pets. And if you live in India or Nigeria, you might use five different languages during a typical day. Katrin Kohl makes a passionate case for why we must embrace languages in all their diversity. When you study a language, you open a unique doorway into the world, immerse yourself in a different way of seeing, and discover new ways of communicating with people from different cultures on their terms. Kohl argues that language diversity is of vital importance to human societies, sustaining the complexity of human nature, culture and technology. We should care about preserving it as much as we care about preserving the diversity of our biological world. -- Provided by publisher.
- "A star scholar's passionate treatise on how learning other languages can change how we see the world, for the better"--
- Series Statement
- Why it matters
- Uniform Title
- Why it matters (Polity Press)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface: Why languages matter -- 1. Understanding identity -- 2. Experimenting with a new medium -- 3. Exploring difference -- 4. Training cultural intelligence -- 5. Developing the imagination -- 6. Negotiating globalization -- Afterword: Sustaining a multilingual future -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFC 21-100
- ISBN
- 9781509540532
- 1509540539
- 9781509540549
- 1509540547
- LCCN
- 2020033692
- 40030445039
- OCLC
- 51428609
- Author
- Kohl, Katrin M. (Katrin Maria), 1956- author.
- Title
- Modern languages / Katrin Kohl.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Why it mattersWhy it matters (Polity Press)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Kohl, Katrin M. (Katrin Maria), 1956- Modern languages Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020. 9781509540556 (DLC) 2020033693
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030445039
- Research Call Number
- JFC 21-100