Resumen de Cosmopolitanism, mobility and multilingualism: new discourses for new indentities?
This paper aims at critiquing celebratory discourses of cosmopolitan ism that present it as a new self-disposition that enables the transcendence of national narratives of belonging and identity. Drawing on authentic discursive data from a highly mobile individual. I nuance the claims often made in the literature about the transformative potential of new cosmopolitan subjectivities. I use the lens of language. and in particular. of discourses about multilingualism and heteroglossia. to examine the extent to which old categories and fixities co-exist and articulate with more fluid conceptions of language and linguistic diversity.
