Modern Languages: Why It Matters

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Modern Languages: Why It Matters by Katrin Kohl

It might seem as if globalization is making the whole world speak English. But spend time in any major city and you are likely to encounter a cornucopia of languages. Even monolingual people have different ways of speaking to their bosses or teachers, their intimate friends or their pets. And if you live in India or Nigeria, you might use five different languages in the course of a normal day.

Bilingual Oxford professor Katrin Kohl makes a passionate case for why we must embrace languages in all their diversity. When you study a language, you gradually open a unique doorway into the world, immerse yourself in a different way of seeing, and discover new ways of communicating with people from different cultures on their terms. Languages open our minds to the diversity of human life in its complex relationships with nature, culture and technology. They enable us to understand why cultural diversity matters, and why we should care about preserving it as much as we care about preserving the diversity of our biological world.

Modern Languages: Why It Matters - Reviews

‘Anyone who thinks “English is enough” should read this book! It is a well-grounded, elegant and passionate appeal to halt our descent into the fruitless desert of monolingualism.’

David Bellos, Princeton University

‘A powerful and timely explanation of the discipline of Modern Languages and why it is fundamentally important both to universities and society.’

Charles F. Burdett, Durham University

Modern Languages: Why It Matters - About the Author(s)

Katrin Kohl is Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford.

  • Language

    Miscellaneous

  • Book Binding

    Paperback

  • Book Dimensions

    13.8 x 11.5 x 21.6 cm

  • Book Format

    Unabridged

  • Book Genre

  • Book ISBN

    9781509540549

  • Book Page Count

    140

  • Book Publication Date

    15 Oct. 2020

  • Book Publisher

    Polity; 1st edition

  • Product Supplier

    Wiley

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