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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction: Central Europe as a Multilingual Space
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Language and European Identities: Centre and Periphery
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Border Crossings
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Migrations Past and Present
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Language and European Identities: Periphery and Centre
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'The linguistic landscape of Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries consists of a complex web of protecting and oppressing minority languages, creating and abolishing nation states and national languages, and shifting political and linguistic borders and boundaries to expand some territories and to render invisible others. This fascinating volumes contains some 12 chapters each dealing with case studies on the use of language(s) in the creation of community and individual identity, drawing on evidence from language contact situations which go beyond the typical textbook accounts of, say, German linguistic enclaves in Hungary. Instead, studies of new areas such as the use of German as a foreign language in Poland, German immigrant literature in Romania and German theatre in Poland, as well as the language of business communication in international companies in the Czech Republic, provide a real advancement for our understanding of multinational space(s). At a time when Europe is still dominated by the tension between monolingual nation states and a recent openness and acceptance that minority and regional communities (and their languages) deserve proper recognition, including e.g. the drive to a greater EU whilst at the same time strengthening (or even creating) regions, this book offers genuine insights into the complexities of the political, cultural, and educational importance of language for the identity of the citizens of Central Europe. This book shows a deep understanding of the historical issues, covers a broad range of case studies from leading European researchers, and addresses the questions of today by offering answers which will still be important tomorrow.' - Nils Langer, Reader in German Linguistics, University of Bristol, UK
'This impressively wide-ranging and well-informed study presents up-to-date perspectives on matters of significance not only for linguists...but also for scholars with a more general interest in multilingual policy in the European Union.' - Slovo A Slovesnost, Czech Republic
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe
Book Subtitle: The German Language in a Multilingual Space
Editors: Jenny Carl, Patrick Stevenson
Series Title: Language and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230241664
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22435-3Published: 30 April 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24166-4Published: 11 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2947-7506
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7514
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 268
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology, general, Applied Linguistics, History of Germany and Central Europe, Language and Literature