Metaphors of Multilingualism : Changing Attitudes towards Language Diversity in Literature, Linguistics and Philosophy (Hardcover)

Preface Introduction Part I Bodies 1. The Patched-Up Face of Multilingualism 2. Organic Metaphors of Language 3. Grotesque Body Images 4. Body Parts: Tongues and Eyes 5. The Embodied Plurilingual Self Part II Family Ties 6. Mother-Tongues and Linguistic Family Trees 7. Beyond Bilingual Bigamy 8. Interlingual Predicaments 9. Linguistic Promiscuity and Incestuous Bisexualism 10. Adoptive and Stepmother Tongues Part III Spaces 11. Territorializing National Languages 12. The Centrifugal Forces of Variation and Stratification 13. Continents and Archipelagos 14. The Ocean of Heteroglossia 15. Networks and Constellations Conclusion References Index