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Language, Discourse and Borders in the Yugoslav Successor States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 98

Language, Discourse and Borders in the Yugoslav Successor States

Do languages cause borders or do borders cause languages? This volume in the Current Issues in Language and Society series attempts to situate the debate on language policies in Southeastern Europe within the larger debate in social sciences and humanities on the issues of borders and the formation of national identities.

Literacy and Linguistic Diversity in a Global Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 106

Literacy and Linguistic Diversity in a Global Perspective

This publication reflects the outcomes of a project which brought together experts and practitioners in the field of linguistic diversity and literacy from European and African countries with a view to opening a dialogue, to taking a comparative perspective and defining possible areas of mutually enriching co-operation and exchange. The question of promoting low-status and non-dominant languages in education is the core concern of contributions in this volume which also encompasses topics such as language awareness, stimulating and encouraging a reading culture in low-status languages and developing criteria for teaching and learning materials that respect linguistic diversity and promote multilingualism. Examples of good practice in valuing African languages include an awareness raising campaign in Cameroon, NGO activities promoting literary production in Senegalese languages, the Stories Across Africa Project (StAAf) as well as initiatives of North-South cooperation in the fields of teacher training and materials development. This publication was conceptualised as a contribution to the African Union's Year of African Languages 2006/07.

Multilingualism and the Periphery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Multilingualism and the Periphery

This edited volume explores the ways in which core-periphery dynamics shape multilingualism.

Researching Multilingualism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Researching Multilingualism

Pt. 1. Researching trajectories, multilingual repertoires and identities -- pt. 2. Researching discourses, policies and practices on different scales -- pt. 3. Researching multilingual communication and multisemioticity online -- pt. 4. Multilingualism in research practice : voices, identities and researcher reflexivity -- pt. 5. Ethnographic monitoring and critical collaborative analysis for social change.

Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-04-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Offers an integral picture of the EU's internal and external borders to reveal the processes of re-bordering and social change currently taking place, exploring issues such as security, immigration, economic development and changing social and political attitudes.

Therapy with Displaced and Highly Mobile Individuals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Therapy with Displaced and Highly Mobile Individuals

This book provides therapists with an understanding of displacement-related issues to help them better serve potential clients such as emigrants, expats, migrants, digital nomads – all those who have left their original home country behind and moved to a different culture and place. With the spread of communication technologies, psychotherapists are expanding their practice to the online setting and into the unfamiliar waters of transcultural counselling with highly mobile and displaced individuals. Building on her research, the author brings up new concepts in therapy practice with emigrants, calling for a displacement-focused, transcultural approach for a modern psychotherapy practice, b...

Policies and Practices for Teaching Sociocultural Diversity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Policies and Practices for Teaching Sociocultural Diversity

Future teachers require specific training on democratic culture and social cohesion. By focusing on reflective thinking, training can enable them to situate themselves in diverse environments, develop a clearer sense of their ethnic and cultural identities and examine attitudes to different groups. Improving diversity management at school in Europe begins with initial teacher training establishments. This book is designed to provide a basis to help ensure that the needs of future teachers in this regard are met. It puts forward 18 "diversity competences" that were identified by a team of European specialists in teacher training between 2006 and 2009. In order to open up the debate on competences, four consultation sessions were organised in Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Estonia. These sessions provided an opportunity to discuss these competences with key players (civil servants, government representatives, teacher trainers, head teachers, researchers, teachers and students) from a national and topic-based perspective

The Cambridge Handbook of Childhood Multilingualism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 853

The Cambridge Handbook of Childhood Multilingualism

Childhood multilingualism has become a norm rather than an exception. This is the first handbook to survey state-of-the-art research on the uniqueness of early multilingual development in children growing up with more than two languages in contact. It provides in-depth accounts of the complexity and dynamics of early multilingualism by internationally renowned scholars who have researched typologically different languages in different continents. Chapters are divided into six thematic areas, following the trajectory, environment and conditions underlying the incipient and early stages of multilingual children's language development. The many facets of childhood multilingualism are approached from a range of perspectives, showcasing not only the challenges of multilingual education and child-rearing but also the richness in linguistic and cognitive development of these children from infancy to early schooling. It is essential reading for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of the multiple aspects of multilingualism, seen through the unique prism of children.

Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-17
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  • Publisher: Springer

This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration. Berlin is a multicultural city in the heart of Europe, but what do we know about the number of languages spoken by its inhabitants and how they are used in everyday life? How do encounters with different languages impact on the experience of migration? And how do people use their experiences with language to shape their life stories?To investigate these questions, the author invites the reader to accompany him on a research expedition that leads to an apartment building in the highly diverse district of Neukölln. Its inhabitants come from different parts of the world and relate their experiences – their Berlin lives – in ways that reveal the complex and intricate relationships between language and migration.

Language and Subjectivity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Language and Subjectivity

An incisive account of the relationship between language and identity, illuminating the role of language in racism, sexism, colonialism and similar social forces.