Studer / Werlen Linguistic Diversity in Europe

Current Trends and Discourses
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-027088-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 349 Seiten

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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 Sprachpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Chapter 1. Introduction;9
2;Part I: Language, Identity and Culture;27
2.1;Chapter 2. European multilingualism: A highly fragmented and challenging field of research;29
2.2;Chapter 3. European cultural contesting identities (the case of Istria);57
2.3;Chapter 4. Language standardization and language identity issues in European language minority settings: Some general remarks in the light of the Survey Ladins;77
2.4;Chapter 5. Language ideological debates: The case of Croatia;95
3;Part II: Language Policy and Planning;121
3.1;Chapter 6. Conceptual contradiction and discourses on multilingualism;123
3.2;Chapter 7. The impact of language and citizenship policies on integration: Contrasting case studies of “new” migration in Spain and the UK;145
3.3;Chapter 8. Social actors and the language policy and planning process: A case study from German-speaking Lorraine (France);165
4;Part III: Multilingualism and Education;185
4.1;Chapter 9. English and multilingualism, or English only in a multilingual Europe?;187
4.2;Chapter 10. European multilingualism, “multicompetence” and foreign language education;211
4.3;Chapter 11. “French is French, English is English”: Standard language ideology in ELF debates;241
5;Part IV: Language and Economy;265
5.1;Chapter 12. Language as an impediment to mobility in Europe (An analysis of legal discourse);267
5.2;Chapter 13. Language use in multinational companies in Europe: A theoretical and methodological reframing;295
5.3;Chapter 14. Markets, know-how, flexibility and language management: The case of the Vietnamese migrant community in the Czech Republic;319
6;Index;347

Über Autor(innen)

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