Creative multilingualism : [electronic resource] a manifesto / Edited by Katrin Kohl, Rajinder Dudrah, Andrew Gosler, Suzanne Graham, Martin Maiden, Wen-chin Ouyang and Matthew Reynolds.

Introducing Creative Multilingualism / Katrin Kohl and Wen-chin Ouyang -- The Creative Power of Metaphor / Katrin Kohl, Marianna Bolognesi and Ana Werkmann Horvat -- Creating a Meaningful World: Nature in Name, Metaphorand Myth / Karen Park, Felice S. Wyndham, Andrew Gosler and John Fanshawe -- Not as 'Foreign' as You Think: Creating Bridges ofUnderstanding across Languages / Martin Maiden, Chiara Cappellaro and Aditi Lahiri -- A Breath of Fresh Air... Ivan Vyrypaev's Oxygen (2002):From Moscow to Birmingham via Oxford / Rajinder Dudrah, Julie Curtis, Philip Ross Bullock and NoahBirksted-Breen -- Multilingualism and Creativity in World Literature / Wen-chin Ouyang -- Prismatic Translation / Matthew Reynolds, Sowon S. Park and Kate Clanchy -- Getting Creative in the Languages Classroom / Suzanne Graham, Linda Fisher, Julia Hofweber and Heike Krüsemann -- Inspiring Language Learners / Jane Hiddleston, Laura Lonsdale, Chiara Cappellaro and DanielTyler-McTighe -- Languages at Work / Katrin Kohl and Jonathan Black -- Creating Langguages / Katrin Kohl -- Why Learn a Language? -- Find Out More -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Authors and Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Index

"Multilingualism is integral to the human condition. Hinging on the concept of Creative Multilingualism -- the idea that language diversity and creativity are mutually enriching -- this timely and thought-provoking volume shows how the concept provides a matrix for experimentation with ideas, approaches and methods.The book presents four years of joint research on multilingualism across disciplines,from the humanities through to the social and natural sciences. It is structured as a manifesto, comprising ten major statements which are unpacked through various case studies across ten chapters. They encompass areas including the rich relationship between language diversity and diversity of identity, thought and expression; the interaction between language diversity and biodiversity; the 'prismatic' unfolding of meaning in translation; the benefits of linguistic creativity in a classroom-setting; and the ingenuity underpinning 'conlangs' ('constructed languages') designed to give imagined peoples a distinctive medium capable of expressing their cultural identity."