Aspects of Multilingualism in European Border Regions
Author: Andrea Abel
Publisher: Accademia Europea di Bolzano
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 272
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Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History
Author: Kurt Braunmüller
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2003-12-11
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9027296014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives. They show a richness of topics and data that not only reveal numerous historical and sociological facts but also afford considerable insight into possible effects multilingualism and language contact might have on language change. The collection begins its journey through Europe in the British Isles. Then it turns to northern Europe and looks at how multilingualism worked in three towns that are all marked by border and contact situations. The journey continues with linguistic-historical and political-historical visits to Sweden and to Lithuania before the reader is taken to central Europe, where we will deal with the influence of Latin on written German.As far as southern Europe is concerned, the study continues on the Iberian peninsula, where the relationship between Portuguese and Spanish is focused, to be followed by Sardinia and Malta, two islands whose unique geohistorical positions give rise to some consideration of multilingualism in the Mediterranean.
Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History
Author: Kurt Braunmüller
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789027219220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives. They show a richness of topics and data that not only reveal numerous historical and sociological facts but also afford considerable insight into possible effects multilingualism and language contact might have on language change. The collection begins its journey through Europe in the British Isles. Then it turns to northern Europe and looks at how multilingualism worked in three towns that are all marked by border and contact situations. The journey continues with linguistic-historical and political-historical visits to Sweden and to Lithuania before the reader is taken to central Europe, where we will deal with the influence of Latin on written German.As far as southern Europe is concerned, the study continues on the Iberian peninsula, where the relationship between Portuguese and Spanish is focused, to be followed by Sardinia and Malta, two islands whose unique geohistorical positions give rise to some consideration of multilingualism in the Mediterranean.
Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies
Author: Kurt Braunmüller
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9027219338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center Multilingualism after twelve years of successful research. It presents a panorama of contemporary research in multilingualism covering three fields of investigation: (1) the simultaneous and successive acquisition of more than one language, including language attrition in multilingual settings, (2) historical aspects of multilingualism and variance, and (3) multilingual communication. The papers cover a vast variety of linguistic phenomena including morphology, syntax, segmental and prosodic phonology as well as discourse production and language use, taking both individual and societal aspects of multilingualism into account. The languages addressed include numerous Romance, Slavic and Germanic varieties as well as Welsh, Hungarian, Turkish, and several South African autochthonous languages.
The Golden Mean of Languages
Author: Alisa van de Haar
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-09-02
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9004408592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French has been studied mainly from monolingual perspectives tracing the development towards modern Dutch or French. Van de Haar shows that the discussions on these languages were rooted in multilingual environments, in particular in French schools, Calvinist churches, printing houses, and chambers of rhetoric. The proposals that were formulated there to forge Dutch and French into useful forms were not directed solely at uniformization but were much more diverse.
Uniformity and Diversity in Language Policy
Author: Catrin Norrby
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2011-10-17
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1847694489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together current research by leading international scholars on the often contentious nature of language policies and their practical outcomes in North America, Australia and Europe. It presents a range of perspectives from which to engage with a variety of pressing issues raised by multilingualism, multiculturalism, immigration, exclusion, and identity. A recurrent theme is that of tension and conflict: between uniformity and diversity, between official policies and real day-to-day life experiences, but also between policies in schools and the corporate world and their implementation. Several chapters present research about language policy issues that has previously not been fully or easily available to an English-language audience. Many of the chapters also provide up-to-date analyses of language policy issues in particular regions or countries, focusing on recent developments.
Managing Plurilingual and Intercultural Practices in the Workplace
Author: Georges Lüdi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9027266409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributions in this volume stem from different lines of research and represent both a continuation and an advancement of the European DYLAN project. The book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and plurilingual repertoires as well as the ways in which cultural diversity is managed in companies and institutions in Switzerland. Characterised by official quadrilingualism, but also by new dimensions of multilingualism resulting from massive immigration, important workforce mobility and increasing globalisation, Switzerland offers an ideal laboratory for studying phenomena linked to multilingualism and cultural diversity. On the one hand, a special focus is put on the best practices of diversity management and language regimes with particular attention paid to the interplay between official languages and English, and to ways of leveraging diversity awareness, fostering cultural inclusiveness and enhancing intercultural learning in vocational education and training. On the other hand, the chapters examine at close range the way actors' plurilingual repertoires are developed and how their use is adapted to particular objectives and specific conditions. Being observed in several types of multilingual professional settings, the plurilingual strategies, including English as lingua franca, are particularly examined in terms of power relations and processes of inclusion or exclusion.
Language, Borders and Identity
Author: Dominic Watt
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-10-12
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0748669787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifying and examining political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders, Language, Borders and Identity encompasses a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, taking a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistics research with human geography, anthropology and social psychology.
French Language Policies and the Revitalisation of Regional Languages in the 21st Century
Author: Michelle A. Harrison
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-11-11
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 3319959395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume presents an analysis of the evolution of French language policies and their impact on French regional languages and their communities. It gathers studies on language revitalisation from several territorial minority languages (Breton, Alsatian, Catalan, Occitan, Basque, Corsican, Francoprovençal, Picard, Reunionese) and evaluates the challenges and opportunities that they face in the 21st century. The chapters tackle different aspects of language endangerment and language planning and adopt varied theoretical and methodological approaches. The first section of the book reconsiders the difficulties in establishing linguistic boundaries and classification for some regional languages. The second section examines the important theme of the new generation of speakers with issues of transmission and identity formation and the changes they can bring to traditional communities. The third section highlights new developments in the context of new technologies and the heightened visibility of regional languages. Finally, the last section presents an overview of the contemporary situation of minority language revitalisation in France and synthesises the key trends identified in this volume: from the educational domain to the European Charter for Minority and Regional languages. This book will appeal to students and scholars of the sociology of language, sociolinguistics, language policy, minority languages and language endangerment.
Mapping Multilingualism in 19th Century European Literatures. Le plurilinguisme dans les littératures européennes du XIXe siècle
Author: Olga Anokhina
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 3643910983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book undertakes an investigation of European literary multilingualism in the 19th century, particularly the period from 1800 to 1880. It covers writers and works from a broad range of linguistic and geographic contexts, going from France to Russia, from Finland to Italy, and beyond. Cet ouvrage se propose d’explorer le plurilinguisme littéraire dans l’Europe du XIXe siècle, notamment durant la période allant de 1800 à 1880. Il traite d’écrivains et d’œuvres littéraires provenant de divers contextes linguistiques et géographiques, de la France à la Russie, de la Finlande à l’Italie et au-delà.
