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.

Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (Volume 40)

History

Gramling, David

Kæs, Anton

Göktürk, Deniz

Europe

University of California Press

The Invention of Multilingualism (Key Topics in Applied Linguistics)

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.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Cambridge University Press

The Invention of Monolingualism harnesses literary studies, applied linguisitics, translation studies, and cultural studies to offer a groundbreaking investigation of monolingualism. After briefly describing what "monolingual” means in scholarship and public discourse, and the pejorative effects this common use may have on non-elite and cosmopolitan populations alike, David Gramling sets out to discover a new conception of monolingualism. Along the way, he explores how writers―Turkish, Latin-American, German, and English-language―have in recent decades confronted monolingualism in their texts, and how they have critiqued the World Literature industry’s increasing hunger for “translatable” novels.

The Invention of Monolingualism

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Bloomsbury Academic

The Invention of Monolingualism harnesses literary studies, applied linguisitics, translation studies, and cultural studies to offer a groundbreaking investigation of monolingualism. After briefly describing what "monolingual” means in scholarship and public discourse, and the pejorative effects this common use may have on non-elite and cosmopolitan populations alike, David Gramling sets out to discover a new conception of monolingualism. Along the way, he explores how writers―Turkish, Latin-American, German, and English-language―have in recent decades confronted monolingualism in their texts, and how they have critiqued the World Literature industry’s increasing hunger for “translatable” novels.

Invention of Monolingualism, The

Palliative Care Conversations: Clinical and Applied Linguistic Perspectives (Language and Social Life [LSL], 12)

There is no script, either for dying or for the time just preceding death. Of course, none of us – even those who specialize in communicating about alleviating suffering in end-of-life contexts - has done dying before ourselves. -Introduction of Palliative Care Conversations Palliative Care Conversations by David and Robert Gramling emerged out of the interactional work of hundreds of people talking with one another about living and dying in settings of serious illness. These people are women and men, gay and straight, of color and white, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Wicca, agnostic, and atheist, low-income and affluent, monolingual and multilingual, old and young. The interactional work these people do, for and with one another, is the work of emotion, understanding, spirituality, empathy, morality, comfort, expertise, logistics, nourishment, community, care, knowledge, humor, doubt, and imagination. Palliative Care Conversations is 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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Gramling, Robert

Social Sciences

De Gruyter Mouton

This series creates a space for innovative scholarship examining the ways language functions as a powerful meaning-making resource for constructing identities, managing relationships and building communities. Grounded in new, data-driven methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, and engaging a diverse range of communicative and textual practices, the series embraces work from variationist sociolinguistics through to discourse studies, linguistic anthropology and social semiotics. Monographs and edited volumes are welcomed, as is any work that explicitly situates language in its political, economic and cultural contexts, and/or intersects with other modes of communication such as visual images, material culture, space/place, and nonverbal communication. The current series was conceived in 2015, but it actually emerged from two earlier book series also published by De Gruyter Mouton. Founded in 1999 by Richard Watts and Monica Heller as <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/serial/LPSP-B/html">Language, Power and Social Process</a>, the series ran until 2011 although Monica had stepped down in 2008. From 2011, the series continued under the new name <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/serial/LSP-B/html">Language and Social Processes</a>, with David Britain joining Richard Watts as editor. When Richard stepped down at the end of 2014, Crispin Thurlow joined David as editor; this is when David and Crispin worked together on updating the series with an expanded, more contemporary scope and a more fitting title: Language and Social Life. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact <a>Natalie Fecher.</a>

This book asks how we―as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers―can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we take back the power of language from those who flaunt that power to silence or erase us and our fellows? In search of answers, Linguistic Disobedience recalls ages and situations that made critiquing, correcting, and caring for language essential for survival. From turn-of-the-twentieth-century Central Europe to the miseries of the Third Reich, from the Movement for Black Lives to the ongoing effort to decolonize African languages, the study and practice of linguistic disobedience have been crucial. But what are we to do today, when reactionary supremacists and authoritarians are screen-testing their own forms of so-called disobedience to quash oppositional social justice movements and their languages? Blending lyric essay with cultural criticism, historical analysis, and applied linguistics, Linguistic Disobedience offers suggestions for a hopeful pathway forward in violent times.

Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language

Komska, Yuliya

Moyd, Michelle

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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