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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814389103321

Titolo

The multilingual challenge : cross-disciplinary perspectives / / edited by Ulrike Jessner, Claire Kramsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-5015-0031-7

1-61451-216-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

Trends in Applied Linguistics, , 1868-6362 ; ; Volume 16

Disciplina

404/.2083

Soggetti

Multilingualism - Study and teaching

Language arts - Correlation with content subjects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of contents -- Notes on the contributors -- Introduction: The multilingual challenge / Jessner, Ulrike / Kramsch, Claire -- Part I: Familial challenges -- 1. Challenges of multilingualism to the family / Wei, Li / Hua, Zhu -- 2. The promotion of multilingualism in a Catalan-speaking area. Familial challenges in the Valencian Community / Safont-Jordà, Maria Pilar -- Part II: Educational challenges -- 3. Conflict in the second language classroom: a teacher of Spanish facing the complicated dimensions of multilingualism / Heidenfeldt, William -- 4. The legitimacy gap: multilingual language teachers in an era of globalization / Kramsch, Claire / Zhang, Lihua -- 5. « Le multilinguisme en question ? » - The case of minority language education in Brittany (France) / Osterkorn, Patrick K. / Vetter, Eva -- Part III: Institutional challenges -- 6. Challenges to monolingual national literatures / Lennon, Brian -- 7. Multilingual and intercultural competence on the threshold of the Third Reich / Gramling, David -- 8. Linguistic Unheimlichkeit: the Armenian and Arab communities of Cyprus / Baider, Fabienne / Kariolemou, Marilena -- Part IV: Scientific challenges -- 9. Monolingualism and multilingualism in the construction and dissemination of scientific knowledge / Lüdi, Georges -- 10. Le Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme : une



recherche internationale, face aux défis d'une conception plurilingue et d'une traduction en anglais et en chinois / Zarate, Geneviève / Gohard-Radenkovic, Aline / Rong, Fu -- 11. Understanding current multilingualism: what can the butterfly tell us? / Aronin, Larissa / Jessner, Ulrike -- Part V: Professional and geopolitical challenges -- 12. Language policy and planning in international organisations / McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa -- 13. Challenges within the ecology of multilingual interactions in Aboriginal cultural tourism in Central Australia / Ellis, Elizabeth -- Afterword: Challenging multilingualism / Kramsch, Claire -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of scholarly articles is the first to address the challenges of multilingualism from a multidisciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine both the beneficial and the problematic aspects of multilingualism in various dimensions, that is, they address familial, educational, academic, artistic, scientific, historical, professional, and geopolitical challenges.