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9781853595554

Beyond Boundaries Language and Identity in Contemporary Europe

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  • ISBN13:

    9781853595554

  • ISBN10:

    1853595551

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-08-06
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters

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Summary

Language and identity are closely interwoven: this collection of essays examines their relationship in a multicultural Europe and beyond and explores various ways in which language is used to forge class, regional and national identity. The question of multiple identity and the role of English are also considered.

Author Biography

Paul Gubbins, a former journalist, teaches German at the University of Salford. His research interests include language planning and policy and the international language Esperanto. Mike Holt is a lecturer in Arabic at the University of Salford. He has published work on Arabic linguistics and language and geopolitics.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(10)
Mike Holt
Paul Gubbins
Language, Nationalism and Globalism: Educational Consequences of Changing Patterns of Language Use
11(8)
Stephen Barbour
Who We Are and Where We're Going: Language and Identities in the New Europe
19(16)
Jenny Cheshire
The Lexicon in European Languages Today: Unification or Diversification?
35(11)
Richard Trim
Lost in Translation: EU Language Policy in an Expanded Europe
46(13)
Paul Gubbins
Identity in Transition: Cultural Memory, Language and Symbolic Russianness
59(14)
Harald Haarmann
Transformation of the State in Western Europe: Regionalism in Catalonia and Northern Italy
73(18)
Brendan Murphy
Cristina Diaz-Varela
Salvatore Coluccello
Fixing National Borders: Language and Loyality in Nice
91(10)
Sue Wright
The French Language, Universalism and Post-colonial Identity
101(10)
Mike Holt
`It's a Culture Thing': Children, Language and `Boundary' in the Bicultural Family
111(15)
Michael Anderson
Language Use and Identity Among African-Caribbean Young People in Sheffield
126(19)
Lerleen Willis
Punjabi/Urdu in Sheffield: Language Maintenance and Loss and Development of a Mixed Code
145
Mike Reynolds

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