Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors On Language, The National and the Transnational in Contemporary Europe; P.Stevenson& C.Mar-Molinero PART 1: THE EUROPEAN LEGACY: THEORETICAL ISSUES Migration, Minorities and Multilingualism in Europe: Language Ideologies and the Practices of Language Difference; S.Gal A European Perspective on Language as Liminality; C.Brumfit Americanization, Language Ideologies and the Construction of European Identities; T.Ricento The Role of 'Europe' in the South African Language Debate; G.Brand The European Linguistic Legacy in a Global Era: Linguistic Imperialism, Spanish and the Instituto Cervantes ; C.Mar-Molinero PART 2: NEW FORMATIONS IN EUROPE: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CHANGE Why 'New' Newspeak ? Axiological Insights into Language Ideologies and Practices in Poland; A.Duszak Language Planning and National Identity in Sweden: A Performativity Approach; T.M.Milani The Macedonian Standard Language: Tito-Yugoslav Experiment or Symbol for 'Great Macedonian'Ethnic Inclusion?; C.Voss Language Loyalty in the Baltic: Russian Artists and Linguistic Nationalism in Estonia; R.Rouillard 'National' Languages in Transnational Contexts: Language, Migration and Citizenship in Germany and Austria; P.Stevenson The European Paradox: Swiss Discourses of Identity Between Dependence and Xenophobia; R.Gould Conducting Dissonance: Codeswitching and Differential Access to Context in the Belgian Asylum Process; K.Maryns & J.Blommaert Multilingual Migrants and Monolingual Teachers: The Discursive Construction of Identity in a Flanders Primary School; M.Spotti Changing Media Spaces: The Transformative Power of Heteroglossic Practices; B.Busch Dobry den Kosice - üdvözlöm Kassát - Hello Kosice: Language Choice in a Slovak Internet Guestbook; L.Bleichenbacher References Index

LUKAS BLEICHENBACHER is Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Teacher Education Thurgau (PHTG) and University of Zurich, Switzerland JAN BLOMMAERT is Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands GERRIT BRAND is Book Editor of the daily newspaper Die Burger in Capetown, South AfricaCHRISTOPHER BRUMFIT (d. 2006) former Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southampton, UKBRIGITTA BUSCH Senior Research Fellow, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, AustriaANNA DUSZAK Head of the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University, Poland where she is Professor of Linguistics, as well as Professor in the Warsaw School of Applied PsychologySUSAN GAL Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor in Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago, USAROBERT GOULD is Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, and in the Institute of European and Russian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, CanadaKATRIJN MARYNS teaches at the Universities of Ghent and Lessius (KUL)TOMMASO M. MILANI is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded 'BBC Voices' project, University of Leeds, UK THOMAS RICENTO is Professor and Chair, English as an Additional Language, University of Calgary, Canada REMY ROUILLARD is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, CanadaMASSIMILIANO SPOTTI is a postdoctoral fellow, Department of Language and Culture Studies as well as a member of Babylon, Centre for the Studies of the Multicultural Society, Tilburg University, the Netherlands CHRISTIAN VOSS is Professor of South Slavic Linguistic and Cultural Studies at Humboldt-University, Berlin