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May, Stephen. 2014. Contesting public monolingualism and diglossia: rethinking political theory and language policy for a multilingual world. Language Policy 13 (4) : 371–393.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Springer

Annotation

This paper opposes both the running resistance against individual and public multilingualism, and the linked favoring of English as mondial lingua franca, drawing chiefly on political theory accounts, as example. Multilingualism is said to offer greater chances for linguistic justice and, counter-intuitively, eases linguistic minorities' broader integration and social mobility in a progressively globalized world.