Urban Multilingualism in the European Union: Bridging the Gap Between Language Policies and Language Practices

✍ Scribed by Rudi Janssens (editor), Stef Slembrouck (editor), Piet Van Avermaet (editor)

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 238
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Today's growing mobility in European urban regions results in a more widespread language diversity, which is increasingly challenging current language policies.

Against this background, this volume deals with the interface between language policy, language planning and actual practices. The impact that prevailing language policies have on language practices is observed in a series of urban settings, leading to a reflection on the changes that need to be brought about to promote social inclusion and valorise linguistic diversity in a context of globalisation-affected and migration-related multilingualism. The topics of discussion draw on different theoretical perspectives and span the research fields of linguistics, education, (family) language policy and planning, language acquisition and sociology.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Tensions between language policies and language practices
1. Language policies versus language practices: A new language conflict?
2. Multilingualism and immigration in the educational system: The case of Italian schools
Part 2: Responses to multilingual challenges in the field of societal practices
3. Rescaling the problem of language difference: Some observations for policy and practice of language support in an era of globalisation
4. “Only dirty things!” Functions of mother tongue use in collaborative group work
Part 3: Responses to multilingual challenges in the context of family policies and practices
5. Urban multilingualism and family language policy
6. Multilingual family practices: An interactional study
Part 4: New ways of mapping multilingual proficiency
7. Sociopragmatic competence and second language acquisition: Learners of English in a study abroad context
8. The building of textual cohesion in the narrations of bilingual children: Implications for bilingualism and multilingual societies
Conclusion
Index

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