Reconfiguring Europe
The Contribution of Applied Linguistics
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-84553-090-7 (ISBN)
Description
Europe is going through a period of sustained and extensive social, political and economic transition, with language playing a pivotal role in this complex process. The papers in this volume address key issues including: nature and extent of multilingualism and multiculturalism; the role of English in the Europe Union; language, languages and democracy; and language and literacy development in emerging contexts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-090-7 (9781845530907)
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E-Book
09/2006
1st Edition
Equinox Publishing Ltd
€46.29
Available for download
Persons
King's College, London
Content
1. Introduction Constant Leung and Jennifer Jenkins 2. The Devil in the Kaleidoscope: Can Europe Speak with a Single Voice in Many Languages? Arturo Tosi, Royal Holloway, University of London 3. Dealing with Multilingualism in Multicultural Europe: Immigrant Minority Languages at Home and School Guus Extra, Tilburg University, Netherlands 4. Prospects for Linguistic Diversity in Europe and Beyond: Views from a Small Island Julia Sallabank, Lancaster University 5. Figuring Out the Englishisation of Europe Robert Phillipson 6. Unity in Diversity: English as a Lingua Franca for Europe Juliane House, University of Hamburg 7. Data-Driven Learning in German for Academic Purposes: A Corpus-Based Approach for Specialist Learners Martina Mollering, Macquarie University 8. Academic Language Development Programme (Widening Participation) Pascaline Scalone and Brian Street, King's College London 9. Evaluating Europe: Parameters of Evaluation in the British Press Monika Bednarek, University of Augsburg 10. Use of Language: A Sign and Cause of Alienation Natalie Braber, Nottingham Trent University