Dominant Language Constellations

“It is well structured and moves from the theoretical to social activism, from qualitative to quantitative, and from additive human groups to subtractive ones. It is comprehensive, covering social context and interaction in the family, friendships, work, education and online communication. The book covers different regions of the world … .” (Daniel Quintero García, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, October 28, 2021)

• Foreword  Li Wei.-Introduction.- Chapter 1: The  DLC: Concepts and Practical Applications: Joseph Lo Bianco and Larissa Aronin.- Part 1 Current Developments of DLC.- Chapter 2.  Dominant Language Constellation as an approach for studying multilingual practices: Larissa Aronin (Israel).- Chapter 3. A Meeting of Concepts and Praxis: Multilingualism, Language Policy and the Dominant Language Constellation Joseph Lo Bianco (Australia).- Chapter 4. Where DLC meets multilingual syntactic development Eva Fernández-Berkeś and Suzanne Flynn  (The USA and Austria).- Chapter 5. Shifting Multi-Layered Dominant Language Constellations in Dynamic Multilingual Contexts: African Perspectives  Felix Banda  (South Africa).- Part 2 Institutional expressions of DLC.- Chapter 6.  Societal Versus Individual Patterns of DLCs in a Finnish Educational Context - Present State and Challenges for the Future Mikaela Björklund, Siv Björklund, and Kaj Sjöholm (Finland).- Chapter 7.  Language Background Profiling at Canadian Elementary Schools and Dominant Language Constellations  Nikolay Slavkov   (Canada).- Chapter 8. Dominant language constellations in the language repertoires of multilingual South African students  Susan Coetzee Van Rooy  (South Africa).- Part 3 Personal and group experiences with DLC.- Chapter 9. The Evolution of personal Dominant Language Constellation  Sarasi Kannangara  (Germany).- Chapter 10. Dominant Language Constellations of Russian Speakers in Cyprus Sviatlana Karpava  (Cyprus).- Chapter 11. Studying crosslinguistic interaction in multilingual production through the Dominant Language Constellation Stela Letica Krevelj  (Croatia).- Chapter 12.  A Dominant Language Constellations case study on language use and the affective domain Richard Mark Nightingale (Spain).- Conclusion – Chapter 13 Quo Vadis, DLC? Joseph Lo Bianco.  Name index.- Subject index.