Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. List of Tables ix
5. Transcription Conventions x
6. Map of Central Europe xi
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. 2 Discourses on Language in Social Life: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations 10
9. 3 Sociolinguistic Histories and the Footprint of German in Eastern Central Europe 43
10. 4 Language Policy Discourses: Interventions and Intersections 82
11. 5 Language (Auto)biographies: Narrating Multilingual Selves 127
12. 6 Language Ideologies: Negotiating Linguistic Identities 161
13. 7 Conclusions 202
14. Appendices
15. Appendix A: European Institutions and Documents Concerning Language Policy 208
16. Appendix B: Preamble to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages 212
17. Appendix C: Introduction to the 2005 Commission Communication ‘A New Framework Strategy for Multilingualism’ 214
18. Appendix D: Introduction to the 2008 Commission Communication ‘Multilingualism: an asset for Europe and a shared commitment’ 216
19. Appendix E: German and Austrian agents and institutions in foreign cultural policy 218
20. Appendix F: Extract from ‘Auswärtige Kulturpolitik – Konzeption 2000’ 222
21. Appendix G: Central focus – ‘Leitbild’ – of the Goethe- Institut 225
22. Appendix H: Austria’s Auslandskulturkonzept NEU 227
23. Appendix I: Plattform Kultur Mitteleuropa – Platform Culture Central Europe 230
24. Appendix J: Extract from Austria kulturint – Tätigkeitsbericht 2002 231
25. Appendix K: Czech 2001 White Paper on Education 234
26. Appendix L: Czech 2004 Education Act 237
27. Appendix M: Extract from Czech Follow- up of Action Plan on Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity 241
28. Appendix N: Hungarian 1997 Directive Concerning the Education for National and Ethnic Minorities 243
29. Appendix O: Extract from 2007 Hungarian National Core Curriculum 246
30. Appendix P: Extract from Hungarian Follow- up of Action Plan for Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity 253
31. References 255
32. Index 273