Beyond boundaries : language and identity in contemporary Europe
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Beyond boundaries : language and identity in contemporary Europe
(Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 122)
Multilingual Matters, c2002
- : hc
- : pbk
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Mike Holt and Paul Gubbins: Introduction
1 Stephen Barbour: Language, Nationalism and Globalism: Educational Consequences of Changing Patterns of Language Use
2 Jenny Cheshire: Who We Are and Where We're Going: Language and Identities in the New Europe
3 Richard Trim: The Lexicon in European Languages Today: Unification or Diversification?
4 Paul Gubbins: Lost in Translation: EU Language Policy in an Expanded Europe
5 Harald Haarmann: Identity in Transition: Cultural Memory, Language and Symbolic Russianness
6 Brendan Murphy, Cristina Diaz-Varela and Salvatore Coluccello: Transformation of the State in Western Europe: Regionalism in Catalonia and Northern Italy
7 Sue Wright: Fixing National Borders: Language and Loyalty in Nice
8 Mike Holt: The French Language, Universalism and Post-colonial Identity
9 Michael Anderson: 'It's a Culture Thing': Children, Language and `Boundary' in the Bicultural Family
10 Lerleen Willis: Language Use and Identity Among African-Caribbean Young People in Sheffield
11 Mike Reynolds: Punjabi/Urdu in Sheffield: Language Maintenance and Loss and Development of a Mixed Code
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