2020
DOI: 10.5007/2175-7968.2020v40nespp15
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Building a new public idea about Multilingualism

Abstract: Há quase 20 anos, após os ataques do 11 de setembro e durante sua presidência da Modern Language Association of America, a Latino-americanista Mary Louise Pratt escreveu e publicou um artigo intitulado “Construindo uma Nova Noção Pública sobre Linguagem”. Procurando por um Estados Unidos linguisticamente diverso no novo século XXI, ela questionou: “O que há de errado nesse cenário linguístico?”. A proposição 227 no Estado da Califórnia praticamente eliminou a educação pública bilíngue em 1998, e os jovens que … Show more

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“…As Gramling (2020) has recently argued in a review of the impact of Pratt's article in the US, such 'calls to arms,' though they may successfully generate intense activities on the part of a range of interest groups, seem not to have made a difference to the ongoing downward trend in engagement in language learning provision in the US. Although he frames the underlying counter-arguments differently, focusing on 'monolingualisation,' as extensively documented and analysed in his earlier work (Gramling, 2016b) rather than on the Anglosphere, his analysis similarly concludes that this alternative discourse trumps those in favour of multilingualism and language learning.…”
Section: Conveying the Conceptmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Gramling (2020) has recently argued in a review of the impact of Pratt's article in the US, such 'calls to arms,' though they may successfully generate intense activities on the part of a range of interest groups, seem not to have made a difference to the ongoing downward trend in engagement in language learning provision in the US. Although he frames the underlying counter-arguments differently, focusing on 'monolingualisation,' as extensively documented and analysed in his earlier work (Gramling, 2016b) rather than on the Anglosphere, his analysis similarly concludes that this alternative discourse trumps those in favour of multilingualism and language learning.…”
Section: Conveying the Conceptmentioning
confidence: 99%