The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education

The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education
Author: Enrica Piccardo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 645
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351002767
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The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education is the first comprehensive publication on plurilingualism, offering a multidimensional reflection on the nature, scope, and potential of plurilingualism in language education and society. Authored by a range of internationally recognized experts, the Handbook provides an overview of key perspectives on plurilingualism in a complementary range of fields. After a comprehensive introduction to the concept itself, 24 chapters are organized in six parts, each examining plurilingualism through a different lens. The Handbook spans historical, philosophical, and sociological dimensions, examines cognitive and neuroscientific implications, and the limitations of boundaries before moving to a pragmatic perspective: How is plurilingual language education developing in different contexts around the world? How can it contribute to language revitalization? How can it be expected to develop in education, digital spaces, and society as a whole? Written for an international audience, this handbook is an indispensable reference tool for scholars in education and applied linguistics, educators, graduate and post-graduate students, and policy makers.

François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought

François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought
Author: Arne De Boever
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-05-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1786615770
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Although the French Hellenist and sinologist François Jullien has published more than thirty books, half of which have been translated into English, he remains much less known in the English-language world than many of his fellow “French philosophers”. This may be due to his work being perceived as within the limits of sinology. This book attempts to rectify this, highlighting Jullien’s work at the intersection of Chinese and Western thought and drawing out the “unthought” in both traditions of thinking. This "unthought" can be seen as what conditions our thought, and opens it up onto new ways of thinking and understanding. The notion of "unthought" is at the core of Jullien’s methodology, operating in what he calls the "divergence of the in-between". Written in an engaging style, Arne De Boever offers an accessible introduction to François Jullien’s work that emphatically challenges some of the core assumptions of Western reasoning.

Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the Later Novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the Later Novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Author: Greg Hainge
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:
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Re-examining the works of France's most controversial of literary figures, this book contends that Louis-Ferdinand Céline's pronouncements on the importance of style must be taken seriously if an understanding of those works is to be reached. Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the Later Novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline provides a major reconsideration of the greater part of the oeuvre of this too-often neglected author. Leaving behind the symbolic capital that the name Céline accrued during the Second World War, this study looks at the works written around and after this period in order to understand the importance of their revolutionary aesthetic not only for their genesis, but also for their very content. The approach taken is unashamedly theoretical which allows this study to provide insights not only into the works of Céline, but also into those of the French thinkers Deleuze and Guattari whose thought, it is argued here, can only be apprehended through application.