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Multilingualism is a meaningful and capacious idea about human meaning-making practice, one with a promising, tumultuous, and flawed present - and a future worth caring for in research and public life. In this book, David Gramling presents original new insights into the topical subject of multilingualism, describing its powerful social, economic and political discourses. On one hand, it is under acute pressure to bear the demands of new global supply-chains, profit margins, and supranational unions, and on the other it is under pressure to make way for what some consider to be better descriptors of linguistic practice, such as translanguaging. The book shows how multilingualism is usefully able to encompass complex, divergent, and sometimes opposing experiences and ideas, in a wide array of planetary contexts - fictitious and real, political and social, North and South, colonial and decolonial, individual and collective, oppressive and liberatory, embodied and prosthetic, present and past.

This article analyses the circuitous relationships between Franz Kafka's last novel The Castle and Orhan Pamuk's 2002 Snow. Though Pamuk's "political novel" does not mention Kafka's hero by name, K.'s pursuit of the domain of Count Westwest in The Castle lays the rhetorical groundwork for Pamuk's narrative about Turkish modernity and political Islam. Snow is designed around a pyramid-like series of imbrications—ranging from Kafka's "K." to Pamuk's hero "Ka" to the novel's Turkish title "Kar" to the Eastern Turkish city of "Kars"—a poetic Verschachtelung that upends the traditional binary terms "East" and "West."

This book will be the first of its kind to offer intensive conversation analysis on patient-clinician interactions in the context of palliative medicine. The book focuses on a series of individual case studies of conversations that revolve, in each case, around one key critical term that is often evoked or understood differently by clinicians and patients.

How does migration change a nation? Germany in Transit is the first sourcebook to illuminate the country's transition into a multiethnic society--from the arrival of the first guest workers in the mid-1950s to the most recent reforms in immigration and citizenship law. The book charts the highly contentious debates about migrant labor, human rights, multiculturalism, and globalization that have unfolded in Germany over the past fifty years--debates that resonate far beyond national borders. This cultural history in documents offers a rich archive for the comparative study of modern Germany against the backdrop of European integration, transnational migration, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Divided into eleven thematic chapters, Germany in Transit includes 200 original texts in English translation, as well as a historical introduction, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and filmography

Intro -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1: Introduction: Obeying and Disobeying -- Antisociality: A Growth Industry -- Idioms of Domination -- Indivisible Language -- "An Unfortunate Consequence of Democracy" -- Disobedience: Critique, Correction, Care in Language -- We, Authors and Readers -- References -- 2: Critique -- Silence -- Choice -- Distrust: Observing -- Disinterestedness: Compiling -- Distance: Including and Excluding -- Acceptance -- Retreat -- References -- 3: Correction -- Correction and the Mother Tongue -- What Is (a) Correction? -- Who Can Make Corrections? -- Risking Correction -- Welcoming Correction -- What Is (Was?) Political Correctness, and What Is It Not? -- The Power(s) of Correction -- References -- 4: Care -- Rewilding the Modern Object of Language -- Care and Ambivalence -- Care and Impurity -- Care for Language -- Make a Decision to Care for Language -- …As It Is Used -- …As It Is Used in Interaction -- …As It Is Used in Human Interaction -- …As It Is Used in Human and Nonhuman Interaction -- …In Complex, Multilayered Ways -- …In Times of Great Need, and Spaces of Great Suffering -- …Whether This Language Is an Act of Labor, Work, Leisure, or Pleasure -- References -- 5: Epilogue: Finding Our Minds -- Losing Our Minds -- Plastic Words -- Written in Blood -- No -- References -- Index.