Table of contents
Introduction
Part I. Companies
Chapter 1. Multilingual practices in professional settings: Keeping the delicate balance between progressivity and intersubjectivity
Chapter 2. The practical processing of plurilingualism as a resource in professional activities: ‘Border-crossing’ and ‘languaging’ in multilingual workplaces
Chapter 3. Multilingualism and diversity management in companies in the Upper Rhine Region
Chapter 4. Representations of multilingualism and management of linguistic diversity in companies: Intertwining of collective monophony and polyphony in individual enunciators
Chapter 5. A social representational perspective on languages and their management in the Danish corporate sector
Chapter 6. What can Gaelic teach us about effective policy through planning? Strategies in Gaelic language planning
Chapter 7. Language diversity management on corporate websites
Part II. European institutions
Chapter 8. Language competence and language choice within EU institutions and their effects on national legislative authorities
Chapter 9. EU and lesser-used languages: Slovene language in EU institutions
Chapter 10. Dynamics of multilingualism in post-Enlargement EU institutions: Perceptions, Conceptions and Practices
Part III. Higher education
Chapter 11. Accomplishing multilingualism through plurilingual activities
Chapter 12. Multilingual higher education between policies and practices: A case study
Chapter 13. Plurilingualisms and knowledge construction in higher education
Chapter 14. Language policies in universities and their outcomes: The University of Helsinki in a Northern European context
Chapter 15. Policies and practices of multilingualism at Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj, Romania)
How policies influence multilingual education and the impact of multilingual education on practices
Part IV. Transversal issues
Chapter 17. Assessing efficiency and fairness in multilingual communication: Theory and application through indicators
Chapter 18. English as a lingua franca in European multilingualism
Chapter 19. Europe’s multilingualism in the context of a European culture of standard languages
Index
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