THE MOBILITY BETWEEN LANGUAGES AND THE FLUXES OF GLOBALIZATION: REVIEWING PARADIGMS, TRANSCENDING PARADOXES

Authors

  • André Coutinho Storto UNICAMP
  • Fabiana Poças Biondo UNICAMP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i40.1018

Keywords:

Mobility, Globalization, Multilingualism, Globalização, Mobilidade, Bi/multilinguismo

Abstract

This article aims to raise some general questions related to mobility and the traffic between languages in times of globalization. While defining “globalization” as a set of discourses, we outline some of its internal contradictions and paradoxes as well as the equally contradictory role of the English language as a homogenizing and fragmentary force in this context. Next, taking the perspective of language as socio discursive practice, we situate the multilingual speaker and the interweaving between languages and meanings in a world dominated by intense patterns of diversity and fluxes of people and discourses. Finally, we turn to the context of the bi/multilingual classroom, trying to point out alternatives to monolingual assumptions underlying educational and pedagogical discourses and practices related to bi/multilingual education that prevent us from understanding multilingual speakers in all their complexity.

 

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Author Biography

André Coutinho Storto, UNICAMP

Professor Associado I do Departamento de Língua e Literatura Vernáculas da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Published

2016-06-28

How to Cite

Storto, A. C., & Biondo, F. P. (2016). THE MOBILITY BETWEEN LANGUAGES AND THE FLUXES OF GLOBALIZATION: REVIEWING PARADIGMS, TRANSCENDING PARADOXES. Revista Da Anpoll, 1(40), 77–89. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i40.1018

Issue

Section

II. ON MOBILITY AND GLOBALIZATION