Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices Language and the Future of Europe

by Mar-Molinero, Clare; Stevenson, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781403998996
• ISBN10: 140399899X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

These are just some of the questions addressed in this book, in which individual studies analyse specific ways in which language ideologies underpin policies, and the relationships between policies and practices, in a wide range of European settings. The relevance of this experience to global trends is further investigated in critical discussions of fundamental theoretical and conceptual issues. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Clare Mar-Molinero is Reader in Spanish and Head of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton. Patrick Stevenson is Professor of German and Linguistic Studies at the University of Southampton.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Language, the National and the Transnational in Contemporary Europe	1	(12)
Patrick Stevenson
Clare Mar-Molinero
Part I The European Legacy: Theoretical Issues
Migration, Minorities and Multilingualism: Language Ideologies in Europe	13	(15)
Susan Gal
A European Perspective on Language as Liminality	28	(16)
Christopher Brumfit
Americanization, Language Ideologies and the Construction of European Identities	44	(14)
Thomas Ricento
The Role of `Europe' in the South African Language Debate, with Special Reference to Political Traditions	58	(18)
Gerrit Brand
The European Linguistic Legacy in a Global Era: Linguistic Imperialism, Spanish and the Instituto Cervantes	76	(15)
Clare Mar-Molinero
Part II New Formations in Europe: Language and Social Change
Why `New' Newspeak?: Axiological Insights into Language Ideologies and Practices in Poland	91	(13)
Anna Duszak
Language Planning and National Identity in Sweden: A Performativity Approach	104	(14)
Tommaso M. Milani
The Macedonian Standard Language: Tito--Yugoslav Experiment or Symbol of `Great Macedonian' Ethnic Inclusion?	118	(15)
Christian Voss
Language Loyalty in the Baltic: Russian Artists and Linguistic Nationalism in Estonia	133	(14)
Remy Rouillard
`National' Languages in Transnational Contexts: Language, Migration and Citizenship in Europe	147	(15)
Patrick Stevenson
The European Paradox: Swiss Discourses of Identity Between Dependence and Xenophobia	162	(15)
Robert Gould
Conducting Dissonance: Codeswitching and Differential Access to Context in the Belgian Asylum Process	177	(14)
Katrijn Maryns
Jan Blommaert
Multilingual Migrants and Monolingual Teachers: The Discursive Construction of Identity in a Flanders Primary School	191	(15)
Massimiliano Spotti
Changing Media Spaces: The Transformative Power of Heteroglossic Practices	206	(14)
Brigitta Busch
Dobry den Kosice -- udvozlom Kassat -- Hello Kosice: Language Choice in a Slovak Internet Guestbook	220	(17)
Lukas Bleichenbacher
References	237	(19)
Index	256