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Multilingual Universities and the Monolingual Mindset

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Multilingualism and Multimodality

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In this chapter we argue that the monolingual mindset (Clyne 2008) or monolingual habitus (Gogolin 1994) is still all-pervasive in our age of late modernity. Our focus is on the internationalization of higher education, and we show that even the language policies of self-avowedly ‘multilingual’ universities are still bound up with, and seemingly unable to break through, the ideology of monolingualism as the norm.

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  1. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Jean-Jacques Weber

  2. University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Kristine Horner

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    Jean-Jacques Weber

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Weber, JJ., Horner, K. (2013). Multilingual Universities and the Monolingual Mindset. In: Saint-Georges, I.d., Weber, JJ. (eds) Multilingualism and Multimodality. The Future of Education Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-266-2_6

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