Linguistic Diversity in Europe

Current Trends and Discourses
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-027083-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 97, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 679 g

Reihe: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

This book, which emerges in the context of the European research network LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), is concerned with European multilingualism both as a political concept and as a social reality. It features cutting-edge studies by linguists and anthropologists who perceive multilingualism as a discursive phenomenon which can be revealed and analyzed through empirical fieldwork. The book presents a fresh perspective of European multilingualism as it takes the reader through key themes of social consciousness – identity, policy, education, economy – and relevant societal levels of organization (European, national, regional).
With its distinct focus on post-national society caught in unifying as well as diversifying socio-political currents, the volume problematizes emerging contradictions inherent in the idea of a Europe beyond the nation state –between speech minorities and majorities, economic realities, or socio-political ideologies.

Zielgruppe

Institutional Libraries, Students and Researchers in Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Planning, Language Policy, Multilingualism, and Sociocultural Anthropology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Studer, Patrick

Werlen, Iwar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Studer, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; Iwar Werlen, University of Bern, Switzerland.