Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity

Product Description As Europe continues to expand and integrate through the European Union, it faces the challenge of ever increasing multilingual and multicultural contact, within and across its borders. This volume presents recent research on European language policy, language contact and multiculturalism that explores how Europe is meeting this challenge. Inspired by intersections and conflicts in language and cultural identity in Europe, the volume transcends disciplinary boundaries by enhancing sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema. The book considers the relationships between language and cultural identity in Europe at a time of increasing multicultural complexity, with contributions on Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine, and the linguistic and imaginative spaces between and beyond. The volume highlights the ongoing significance of language and identity for an expanding Europe, and the ways in which situations of linguistic hybridity, interlocution and language contact continue to define Europe and its others. About the Author Jane Warren, Honorary Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, completed her DPhil at St Hughâs College, Oxford. She is co-author, with Leigh Oakes, of Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and, with Michael Clyne and Catrin Norrby, of Language and Human Relations: Address in Contemporary Language (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Heather Merle Benbow, Co-Convenor of European Studies and Lecturer in German in the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2003. Her monograph, Gender and Orality in German Culture around 1800, is forthcoming.