Language Management in Contact Situations

The Editors: Jiří Nekvapil is an associate professor of the Department of Linguistics at Charles University in Prague. His scientific interests include Language Management Theory, ethnomethodologically informed analysis of media discourse, and the use of languages in multinational companies.Tamah Sherman is a researcher at the Department of Linguistics at Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on the numerous forms of contact between Czech and English.

• Contents: Jiří Nekvapil/Tamah Sherman: Introductory remarks – Jiří Nekvapil: The integrative potential of Language Management Theory – Marián Sloboda: A language management approach to language maintenance and shift: A study from post-Soviet Belarus – István Lanstyák/Gizella Szabómihály: Hungarian in Slovakia: Language management in a bilingual minority community – Tamah Sherman: Managing hegemony: Native English speakers in the Czech Republic – Sau Kuen Fan: Host management of Japanese among young native users in contact situations – Lisa Fairbrother: Native speakers’ application of contact norms in intercultural contact situations with English-speaking, Chinese-speaking and Portuguese-speaking non-native speakers of Japanese – Hidehiro Muraoka: A typology of problems in contact situations – Helen Marriott: Japanese speakers’ management of transference behaviour in an Australian context – Yuko Masuda: Negotiation of language selection in Japanese-English exchange partnerships – Kuniko Yoshimitsu: Management of study difficulties by Japanese students at an Australian university – Hiroyuki Nemoto: Negotiation of norms in academic contact situations – Björn H. Jernudd: An apology for Language Management Theory.