‘Building a new public idea about language’?: Multilingualism and language learning in the post-Brexit UK

In 2003, Mary Louise Pratt published a hugely influential paper in Profession where she took to task misconceptions about multilingualism and language learning apparent the USA wake of 9/11 consequent counter-terrorism measures. She argued that new public idea was necessary order ensure unity security. This article argues aftermath Brexit, UK also needs develop future is prosperous, socially, culturally economically. To do so, it first challenges number prevalent myths through review scholarship, media articles reports which focus on languages since 2013. It then suggests interest Anglosphere has meant value English now artificially inflated other underplayed. We argue this turn (English) monolingualism should be challenged proposing for post-Brexit UK.