Crépon, Marc

What We Expect from Language (Regarding Monolingualism of the Other) - 2001.


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Commenting on Derrida’s Monolinguisme de l’autre, this article deconstructs the main argument of linguistic nationalism: the idea that language would or should be « the propriety of a people », a propriety that we all have to appropriate. Countering this argument, Marc Crépon proposes another promise more accurate to describe our relationship to language.