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The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance
Edited by Peter A. Kraus and François Grin
[Studies in World Language Problems 6] 2018
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Table of contents

Acknowledgements vii
List of contributors ix
List of abbreviations xvii
List of figures, tables, charts and pictures xix
Chapter 1.The politics of multilingualism: General introduction and overview 1
Part I.Reconceptualising multilingualism and collective identity
Chapter 2.The politics of multilingualism in Canada: A neo-institutional approach 19
Chapter 3.A Russian-speaking nation: The promotion of the Russian language and its significance for ongoing efforts at Russian nation-building 39
Chapter 4.The impact of mobility and migration on the identity-constructing policy in Brussels 65
Chapter 5.From glossophagic hegemony to multilingual pluralism?: Re-assessing the politics of linguistic identity in Europe 89
Chapter 6.Transient linguistic landscapes of activism: Protesting against austerity policies in the Eurozone 111
Part II.Linguistic hegemony, insecurity and linguistic justice
Chapter 7.How to measure linguistic justice?: Theoretical considerations and the South Tyrol case study of the Calvet Language Barometer 145
Chapter 8.Linguistic justice and English as a Lingua Franca 167
Chapter 9.The promise and pitfalls of global English 201
Chapter 10.Languages, norms and power in a globalised context 223
Part III. Lingua Franca and global linguistic governance
Chapter 11.On some fashionable terms in multilingual research: Critical assessment and implications for language policy 247
Chapter 12.English, the Lingua Nullius of global hegemony 275
Chapter 13.Idealism or pragmatism?: Ad hoc multilingualism and Open English 305
Chapter 14.European integration and the variety of languages in Europe: An awkward coexistence 333
Author index 359
Subject index


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