700 Reasons: Reason #225
- Reason: 225
- Multilingualism and 'linguistic flexibility' and the more 'provisional loyalties' that they necessarily engender are routes to both the preservation of identity as opposed to the nihilism represented by the events of September 11, and to the mutual intelligibility that will rescue us from that destruction at all its levels
- Reference:
- Davies, V. (2003) 'Tools of diplomacy: the language policy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and what it means for higher education' in Head, D. et al. Setting the Agenda for Languages in Higher Education (London: CILT), pp.43-59
- Related Keywords:
- Identity, International relations, Multilingualism
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