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almahu_9947362643302882
Format:
288 p. :
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2 figures, 2 maps, 15.
ISBN:
9780230241664 :
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0230241662 :
Series Statement:
Language and globalization
Content:
Focusing on contact between German and other languages, the contributors analyze the ways in which language practices and discourses on language have changed since the end of the Cold War.
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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.
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Electronic book text.
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Epublication based on: 9780230224353, 2009.
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List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Central Europe as a Multilingual Space-- J.Carl& P.Stevenson PART I: LANGUAGE AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES: CENTRE AND PERIPHERY Discourses about Enlarged and Multilingual Europe: Perspectives from German and Polish National Public Spheres-- M.KrzyA anowski PART II: BORDER CROSSINGS The German Language in Poland: The Eternal Foe and the Wars on Words-- S.Jaworska 'Die Harteste Sprachgrenze Europas?' Negotiating the Linguistic Divide in Theatres on the German-Polish Border-- J.Wilkinson Czech-German Relationships and Identity in a Cross-Border Region-- K.Aierna Czech, German and English: Finding Their Place in Multinational Companies in the Czech Republic-- J.Nekvapil& T.Sherman PART III: MIGRATIONS PAST AND PRESENT Changes in the Linguistic Marketplace: The Case of German in Hungary-- P.Maitz& K.Sandor Central European Time: Memories of Language -- Lost and Found -- In the Life Stories of German-Speakers-- J.Carl& P.Stevenson Dialect Use and Discursive Identities of Migrants from the West in Eastern Germany-- J.Dailey-O'Cain& G.Liebscher 'Hablemos El Mismo Idioma? Salsa, Multilingualism and National Monolingual Ideology-- B.Schneider Towards a Multinational Concept of Culture: Romanian German Literature in Romanian and Hungarian Literature-- T.Cooper PART IV: LANGUAGE AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES: PERIPHERY AND CENTRE Revisiting History: The 2007 European Capital of Culture and the Integration of Fractal Europe-- K.Horner Index.
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