Receptive Multilingualism

Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts

Editors

Jan D. ten Thije | Utrecht University

Ludger Zeevaert | University of Hamburg

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Receptive multilingualism refers to the language constellation in which interlocutors use their respective mother tongue while speaking to each other. Since the mid-nineties receptive multilingualism is promoted by the European commission on par with other possibilities of increasing the mobility of the European citizens. Throughout the last ten years a marked increase in the research on this topic has been observable. This volume reveals new perspectives from different theoretical frameworks on linguistic analyses of receptive multilingualism in Europe. Case studies are presented from contemporary settings, along with analyses of historical examples, theoretical considerations and, finally, descriptions of didactical concepts established in order to transfer and disseminate receptive multilingual competence. The book contains results from research carried out at the Research Center on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg as well as contributions by various international scholars working in the field of receptive multilingualism.

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 6] 2007. x, 328 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/hsm.6

Table of Contents

About the authors | pp. ix–x

Introduction

Ludger Zeevaert and Jan D. ten Thije | pp. 1–21

Part 1 Historical development of receptive multilingualism

1. Receptive multilingualism in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages: A description of a scenario

Kurt Braunmüller | pp. 25–47

2. Linguistic diversity in Habsburg Austria as a model for modern European language policy

Rosita Schjerve-Rindler and Eva Vetter | pp. 49–70

Part 2 Receptive multilingualism in discourse

3. Receptive multilingualism in Dutch–German intercultural team cooperation

Anne Ribbert and Jan D. ten Thije | pp. 73–101

4. Receptive multilingualism and inter-Scandinavian semicommunication

Ludger Zeevaert | pp. 103–135

5. Receptive multilingualism in Switzerland and the case of Biel/Bienne

Iwar Werlen | pp. 137–157

6. The Swiss model of plurilingual communication

Georges Lüdi | pp. 159–178

7. Receptive multilingualism in business discourses

Bettina Dresemann | pp. 179–193

8. Speaker stances in native and non-native English conversation: I + verb constructions

Nicole Baumgarten and Juliane House | pp. 195–214

Part 3 Testing mutual understanding in receptive multilingual communication

9. Understanding differences in inter-Scandinavian language understanding

Gerard Doetjes | pp. 217–230

10. Scandinavian intercomprehension today

Lars-Olof Delsing | pp. 231–246

Part 4 Determining the possibilities of reading comprehension in related languages

11. Interlingual text comprehension: Linguistic and extralinguistic determinants

Renée van Bezooijen and Charlotte Gooskens | pp. 249–264

12. Processing levels in foreign-language reading

Madeline Lutjeharms | pp. 265–284

13. A computer-based exploration of the lexical possibilities of intercomprehension: Finding German cognates of Dutch words

Robert Möller | pp. 285–305

14. How can DaFnE and EuroComGerm contribute to the concept of receptive multilingualism? Theoretical and practical considerations

Britta Hufeisen and Nicole Marx | pp. 307–321

Name index | pp. 323–325

Subject index | pp. 326–328

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