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Kohl, Katrin

 
9781509540549: Modern Languages: Why It Matters
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ISBN 10: 1509540547 ISBN 13: 9781509540549
Editorial: Polity Press, 2020

Sinopsis

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.

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Katrin Kohl is Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford.

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Editorial
Polity Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1509540547
ISBN 13 
9781509540549
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
140
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