The Multilingual Challenge: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

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The Multilingual Challenge

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Edited by: Ulrike Jessner-Schmid
Ulrike Jessner-Schmid

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Volume 16 | Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]

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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.

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Ulrike Jessner, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Notes on the contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Introduction: The multilingual challenge Ulrike Jessner and Claire Kramsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Familial challenges
1. Challenges of multilingualism to the family Li Wei and Zhu Hua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
2. The promotion of multilingualism in a Catalan-speaking area. Familial challenges in the Valencian Community Maria Pilar Safont-Jordà Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
Part II: Educational challenges
3. Conflict in the second language classroom: a teacher of Spanish facing the complicated dimensions of multilingualism William Heidenfeldt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
4. The legitimacy gap: multilingual language teachers in an era of globalization Claire Kramsch and Lihua Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
5. « Le multilinguisme en question ? » – The case of minority language education in Brittany (France) Patrick K. Osterkorn and Eva Vetter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Part III: Institutional challenges
6. Challenges to monolingual national literatures Brian Lennon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
7. Multilingual and intercultural competence on the threshold of the Third Reich David Gramling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
8. Linguistic Unheimlichkeit: the Armenian and Arab communities of Cyprus Fabienne Baider and Marilena Kariolemou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Part IV: Scientific challenges
9. Monolingualism and multilingualism in the construction and dissemination of scientific knowledge Georges Lüdi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
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 Geneviève Zarate, Aline Gohard-Radenkovic and Fu Rong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
11. Understanding current multilingualism: what can the butterfly tell us? Larissa Aronin and Ulrike Jessner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Part V: Professional and geopolitical challenges
12. Language policy and planning in international organisations Lisa McEntee-Atalianis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
13. Challenges within the ecology of multilingual interactions in Aboriginal cultural tourism in Central Australia Elizabeth Ellis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Afterword: Challenging multilingualism Claire Kramsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357

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September 25, 2015

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September 11, 2015

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November 7, 2017

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10

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359

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