Linguistic Diversity in Europe : : Current Trends and Discourses / / ed. by Patrick Studer, Iwar Werlen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bertoša, Mislava,; Bozic, Senka,; Cogo, Alessia,; DalNegro, Silvia,; Darquennes, Jeroen,; Dorner, Daniela,; Dovalil, Vít,; Engelhardt, Oliver,; Horvat, Anita Skelin,; Ioannidou, Elena,; Kalocsai, Karolina,; Kovács, Emőke,; Mar-Molinero, Clare,; Mitchell, Rosamond,; Nekvapil, Jiří,; Orlic, Olga,; Paffey, Darren,; Peckham, Donald W.,; Schjerve, Rosita Rindler,; Sherman, Tamah,; Studer, Patrick,; Vasiljev, Ivo,; Vetter, Eva,; Vigers, Dick,; Vrbancic, Mario,; Werlen, Iwar,
• HerausgeberIn: Studer, Patrick,; Werlen, Iwar,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 97
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)

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 percei...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Part I: Language, Identity and Culture
• Chapter 2. European multilingualism: A highly fragmented and challenging field of research
• Chapter 3. European cultural contesting identities (the case of Istria)
• Chapter 4. Language standardization and language identity issues in European language minority settings: Some general remarks in the light of the Survey Ladins
• Chapter 5. Language ideological debates: The case of Croatia
• Part II: Language Policy and Planning
• Chapter 6. Conceptual contradiction and discourses on multilingualism
• Chapter 7. The impact of language and citizenship policies on integration: Contrasting case studies of “new” migration in Spain and the UK
• Chapter 8. Social actors and the language policy and planning process: A case study from German-speaking Lorraine (France)
• Part III: Multilingualism and Education
• Chapter 9. English and multilingualism, or English only in a multilingual Europe?
• Chapter 10. European multilingualism, “multicompetence” and foreign language education
• Chapter 11. “French is French, English is English”: Standard language ideology in ELF debates
• Part IV: Language and Economy
• Chapter 12. Language as an impediment to mobility in Europe (An analysis of legal discourse)
• Chapter 13. Language use in multinational companies in Europe: A theoretical and methodological reframing
• Chapter 14. Markets, know-how, flexibility and language management: The case of the Vietnamese migrant community in the Czech Republic
• Index