Language and Identity in Europe

Contents: Maria Stoicheva and Lorna Carson - Introduction - Penka Hristova, Daniela Modrescu, Dilyana Pavlova/Lorna Carson: European multilingual cities and their citizens: Research perspectives - Piero Ianniello: Linguistic and cultural diversity in Italy: The case of the city of Prato - Jingjing Li: Towards urban inclusion: The case of an urban borderland - Plamena Zayachka - Identity and community: The heritage community of Plovdiv - Denitza Gencheva: The virtual multilingual city - Vihren Evgeniev Mitev: Development of a philosophical-anthropological concept of personality - Yacine Chemssi: Language and identity: The case of some Moroccan immigrants and their direct descendants in post-war France - Bronagh Catibusic: Syrian refugee resettlement in Ireland: Language, cultural identity and diversity in host communities beyond the metropolis - Kathleen McTiernan, Aoife Parkes/Lorna Carson: Multilingual practices in primary education in Europe: A scoping review - Desislava Karaasenova: Transnational academic mobility: The experience of Bulgarian Fulbright scholars - Nikolina Tsvetkova/Nadya Birezhakli: The role of language in doctoral training in the European Higher Education Area - Tanya Borisova: English-medium instruction and socio-cultural competence development in high schools in Bulgaria - Maria Metodieva Genova: Building skills for understanding literary texts through multicultural competence - Dominika Cevárová: Increasing nationalistic tendencies in Europe's political systems: A threat to the EU? -Barbora Hrozenská: The Kurdish minority: A factor influencing Turkey's migration policy? - Nikolay Yanev: Language in the institutional formation of the EU: 'Protecting financial interests' as a history of a narrative.

Lorna Carson, FTCD, is Head of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, where she is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies. Her recent publications include The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict and Change (2016).