Beschreibung:
Quentin Williams is Senior Lecturer of Linguistics and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR), University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Examining Hannah Arendt's concepts of 'pluriversality' and 'natality' through a linguistic lens, this book explores their implications for language. Highlighting discourses of vulnerability, chapters critically approach, dissect, and analyse a range of issues related to the practice, or avoidance, of multilingualism and how this contributes to states of unpredictability and exposure.