Subject index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. About the authors ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1 Historical development of receptive multilingualism
6. 1. Receptive multilingualism in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages: A description of a scenario 25
7. 2. Linguistic diversity in Habsburg Austria as a model for modern European language policy 49
8. Part 2 Receptive multilingualism in discourse
9. 3. Receptive multilingualism in Dutch–German intercultural team cooperation 73
10. 4. Receptive multilingualism and inter-Scandinavian semicommunication 103
11. 5. Receptive multilingualism in Switzerland and the case of Biel/Bienne 137
12. 6. The Swiss model of plurilingual communication 159
13. 7. Receptive multilingualism in business discourses 179
14. 8. Speaker stances in native and non-native English conversation: I + verb constructions 195
15. Part 3 Testing mutual understanding in receptive multilingual communication
16. 9. Understanding differences in inter-Scandinavian language understanding 217
17. 10. Scandinavian intercomprehension today 231
18. Part 4 Determining the possibilities of reading comprehension in related languages
19. 11. Interlingual text comprehension: Linguistic and extralinguistic determinants 249
20. 12. Processing levels in foreign-language reading 265
21. 13. A computer-based exploration of the lexical possibilities of intercomprehension: Finding German cognates of Dutch words 285
22. 14. How can DaFnE and EuroComGerm contribute to the concept of receptive multilingualism? Theoretical and practical considerations 307
23. Name index 323
24. Subject index 326