Chapter 1. The politics of multilingualism

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. List of abbreviations xvii
6. List of figures, tables, charts and pictures xix
7. Chapter 1. The politics of multilingualism 1
8. Part I. Reconceptualising multilingualism and collective identity
9. Chapter 2. The politics of multilingualism in Canada 19
10. Chapter 3. A Russian-speaking nation? 39
11. Chapter 4. The impact of mobility and migration on the identity-constructing policy in Brussels 65
12. Chapter 5. From glossophagic hegemony to multilingual pluralism? 89
13. Chapter 6. Transient linguistic landscapes of activism 111
14. Part II. Linguistic hegemony, insecurity and linguistic justice
15. Chapter 7. How to measure linguistic justice? 145
16. Chapter 8. Linguistic justice and English as a Lingua Franca 167
17. Chapter 9. The promise and pitfalls of global English 201
18. Chapter 10. Languages, norms and power in a globalised context 223
19. Part III. Lingua Franca and global linguistic governance
20. Chapter 11. On some fashionable terms in multilingualism research 247
21. Chapter 12. English, the Lingua Nullius of global hegemony 275
22. Chapter 13. Idealism or pragmatism? 305
23. Chapter 14. European integration and the variety of languages 333
24. Author index 359
25. Subject index 365