Multilingual Europe, Multilingual Europeans
Published on 1. January 2012
Book
Hardback
332 pages
978-90-420-3528-7 (ISBN)
Description
Multilingualism is a crucial if often unrecognized marker of new European identities.
In this collection of essays, we observe how a plurilinguist and pluricultural political entity practices and theorizes multilingualism. We ask which types of multilingualism are defined, encouraged or discouraged at the level of official policies, but also at the level of communities. We look at speakers of hegemonic or minority languages, at travellers and long-term migrants or their children, and analyse how their conversations are represented in official documents, visual art, cinema, literature and popular culture.
The volume is divided into two parts that focus respectively on "Multilingual Europe" and "Multilingual Europeans." The first series of chapters explore the extent to which multilingualism is treated as both a challenge and an asset by the European Union, examine which factors contribute to the proliferation of languages: globalisation, the enlargement of the European Union and EU language policies. The second part of the volume concentrates on the ways in which cultural productions represent the linguistic practices of Europeans in a way that emphasizes the impossibility to separate language from culture, nationality, but also class, ethnicity or gender. The chapters suggest that each form of plurilingualism needs to be carefully analysed rather than celebrated or condemned.
In this collection of essays, we observe how a plurilinguist and pluricultural political entity practices and theorizes multilingualism. We ask which types of multilingualism are defined, encouraged or discouraged at the level of official policies, but also at the level of communities. We look at speakers of hegemonic or minority languages, at travellers and long-term migrants or their children, and analyse how their conversations are represented in official documents, visual art, cinema, literature and popular culture.
The volume is divided into two parts that focus respectively on "Multilingual Europe" and "Multilingual Europeans." The first series of chapters explore the extent to which multilingualism is treated as both a challenge and an asset by the European Union, examine which factors contribute to the proliferation of languages: globalisation, the enlargement of the European Union and EU language policies. The second part of the volume concentrates on the ways in which cultural productions represent the linguistic practices of Europeans in a way that emphasizes the impossibility to separate language from culture, nationality, but also class, ethnicity or gender. The chapters suggest that each form of plurilingualism needs to be carefully analysed rather than celebrated or condemned.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
698 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-3528-7 (9789042035287)
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Content
Authors in this volume
Mireille Rosello: Introduction
Multilingualism in Europe: Policy and Practice
Laszlo Maracz: Multilingualism in Europe: Policy and Practice
Yvo Volman: The Lisbon Treaty and Linguistic Diversity: Policy and Practice in the European Institutions
Galina Korshunova and Laszlo Maracz: Multilingualism and Transnational Communication Strategies in Europe: From Hapsburg to the European Union
Vanja Ivanova: Language Policy and National Equality in socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1974)
Glyn Williams and Gruffud Owain Williams: Union and Unity out of Diversity
Balazs Vizi: Minority Languages and Multilingualism in Europe and in the European Union
Timofey Agarin and Michael Hornsby: Language Sectarianism: Regional Languages Between the National Past and a European Future
Eva Vetter: Teachers of Italian, Spanish and French: Limitations and Possibilities of their Education towards Multilingualism
Plurilingual Europeans in a Multilingual Europe: Incomplete and Imperfect Communication Tactics
Mireille Rosello: Plurilingual Europeans in a Multilingual Europe: Incomplete and Imperfect Communication Tactics
Guido Snel: Lingua franca in Central Europe after the Disappearance of German
Jean-Marc Moura: French within Europe and Beyond: The Case of 'Francophone' Writers
Dominic Thomas: Into the Jungle: Migration and Grammar in the New Europe
Mary Gallagher: Multilingual Europeans, Contemporary Ireland and John Carney's film Once
Mireille Rosello: French-Romani Dialogues in Gadjo Dilo: Who Teaches European Languages and Minority Cultures?
Mireille Rosello: Introduction
Multilingualism in Europe: Policy and Practice
Laszlo Maracz: Multilingualism in Europe: Policy and Practice
Yvo Volman: The Lisbon Treaty and Linguistic Diversity: Policy and Practice in the European Institutions
Galina Korshunova and Laszlo Maracz: Multilingualism and Transnational Communication Strategies in Europe: From Hapsburg to the European Union
Vanja Ivanova: Language Policy and National Equality in socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1974)
Glyn Williams and Gruffud Owain Williams: Union and Unity out of Diversity
Balazs Vizi: Minority Languages and Multilingualism in Europe and in the European Union
Timofey Agarin and Michael Hornsby: Language Sectarianism: Regional Languages Between the National Past and a European Future
Eva Vetter: Teachers of Italian, Spanish and French: Limitations and Possibilities of their Education towards Multilingualism
Plurilingual Europeans in a Multilingual Europe: Incomplete and Imperfect Communication Tactics
Mireille Rosello: Plurilingual Europeans in a Multilingual Europe: Incomplete and Imperfect Communication Tactics
Guido Snel: Lingua franca in Central Europe after the Disappearance of German
Jean-Marc Moura: French within Europe and Beyond: The Case of 'Francophone' Writers
Dominic Thomas: Into the Jungle: Migration and Grammar in the New Europe
Mary Gallagher: Multilingual Europeans, Contemporary Ireland and John Carney's film Once
Mireille Rosello: French-Romani Dialogues in Gadjo Dilo: Who Teaches European Languages and Minority Cultures?