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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455678103321

Titolo

Beyond boundaries [[electronic resource] ] : language and identity in contemporary Europe / / edited by Paul Gubbins and Mike Holt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Buffalo, N.Y., : Multilingual Matters, 2002

ISBN

1-280-82798-X

9786610827985

9781853595572

1-85359-557-8

Descrizione fisica

vi, 162 p

Collana

Multilingual matters ; ; 122

Altri autori (Persone)

GubbinsPaul <1949->

HoltMike

Disciplina

306.44/094

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics - Europe

Nationalism - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Language, Nationalism and Globalism: Educational Consequences of Changing Patterns of Language Use -- Chapter 2: Who We Are and Where We’re Going: Language and Identities in the New Europe -- Chapter 3: The Lexicon in European Languages Today: Unification or Diversification? -- Chapter 4: Lost in Translation: EU Language Policy in an Expanded Europe -- Chapter 5: Identity in Transition: Cultural Memory, Language and Symbolic Russianness -- Chapter 6: Transformation of the State in Western Europe: Regionalism in Catalonia and Northern Italy -- Chapter 7: Fixing National Borders: Language and Loyalty in Nice -- Chapter 8: The French Language, Universalism and Post-colonial Identity -- Chapter 9: ‘It’s a Culture Thing’: Children, Language and ‘Boundary’ in the Bicultural Family -- Chapter 10: Language Use and Identity Among African-Caribbean Young People in Sheffield -- Chapter 11: Punjabi/Urdu in Sheffield: Language Maintenance and Loss and Development of a Mixed Code

Sommario/riassunto

Language and identity are closely interwoven: this collection of essays



examines their relationship in a multicultural Europe and beyond and explores various ways in which language is used to forge class, regional and national identity. The question of multiple identity and the role of English are also considered.