Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe - The German Language in a Multilingual Space (Hardcover)

Central Europe has always been a highly multilingual region but how has this been affected by the social and political transformations of the last 20 years? The German language in particular has long played a key role in processes of identification here: but what role is the relationship between German and other languages playing today in the reshaping of societies and communities in this rapidly changing region? How is this relationship articulated in discourses on language and language ideologies? How is it manifested in individual repertoires and social practices? How is it determined by social and cultural policies? How is it exploited in the construction of European identities?
These are just some of the questions addressed in this book, in which individual studies explore language practices in the multilingual contact zones of central Europe and the impact of both past and present migrations. Analysing a wide range of sources from media texts to language biographies and from business meetings to salsa classes, the authors demonstrate the local effects of global processes and some of the many ways in which language figures in contemporary social change.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Language and Globalization
Release date:	April 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	J. Carl • P. Stevenson
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	268
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-22435-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
LSN:	0-230-22435-0
Barcode:	9780230224353

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