Comments on: Lies we tell ourselves about multilingualism

By: Alia Amir

Alia Amir — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:04:32 +0000

This is a fantastic though-provoking conversation! Thank you for sharing the audio format as well.
Good point about historical amnesia and that many disciplines including history and sociolinguistics do not often speak to each other. There are many aspect of epistemogical inaccuracy one comes across even when talking about the word ‘multilingualism’.

By: Aneta Pavlenko

Aneta Pavlenko — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 12:20:20 +0000

In reply to Martha Karrebæk. Thanks, Marta! Unfortunately, publishers commonly produce paperbacks a year or two after hardcovers so a paperback is in the future. Hopefully, your library has a copy of the book. I have also posted prep-prints of my own chapters on Academia and Research Gate.

By: Martha Karrebæk

Martha Karrebæk — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 07:38:11 +0000

Thank you for this conversation – and for the book. I would love to read it – I heard Aneta speak about this at the SS in Hong Kong, and I loved the talk. I noticed that the book is only out as a hardback (and with a significant price tag). Will it be published as a paperback?

By: Ingrid Piller

Ingrid Piller — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:28:00 +0000

In reply to Loy Lising. Thanks, Loy! Good point about the developmental state enforcing monolingualism. Can't wait to read your history of multilingualism in the Philippines! Apropos, have you seen Piers Kelly's new book The Last Language on Earth? Quite unique perspective on language and history ...

By: Loy Lising

Loy Lising — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:01:21 +0000

Happy 2024, everyone!
This is very thought-provoking and inspires me to think about my own multilingual spaces and histories, especially the ones that have not been told. I’m also thinking about the roles politicians, national language policies (or their absence), and economic arguments have played in eroding and silencing multilingual practices especially in societies where progress or the idea of progress is perceived to be tied to one language. This very ideology alone fuels linguistic amnesia.
Thank you Aneta and Ingrid.