The volume «Language and Identity in Migration Contexts», which contains studies from different languages and migration contexts across the world, provides an excellent overview of the topic while highlighting some key elements like multilingualism, societal and educational contexts, as well as forced migration. The volume will therefore be of much interest to researchers working on these topics. (Prof. Dr. Anita Auer, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)The contributions to this volume shed a new light on various central topics in the discourses on language, migration and identity. The continued centrality of language on identity formation processes is underlined but it is shown that language is not a defining criterion for identity formation processes of migrants, in the context of migration or for heritage speakers in all cases. However, societal contexts play an important role in identity formation and these societal contexts themselves are strongly influenced by the ideologies that are prevalent in societies and that may be perpetuated in educational contexts. In the discussion of language, identity and migration in this volume, perspectives from the Global North are enriched by perspectives of the Global South, and the impact of media influence in migration discourse is analysed.

Dieser Sammelband besteht zur Hälfte aus Referaten eines Festkolloquiums zu Ehren von Klaus Mattheiers 60. Geburtstag, das im Juli 2001 in Heidelberg stattfand. Die andere Hälfte der Beiträge haben Schüler, Kollegen und Freunde beigesteuert. Die inhaltlich weit gefächerten Beiträge behandeln drei Forschungsschwerpunkte von Klaus Mattheier: die Sprachgeschichte, die Sprachinselforschung und die Variationslinguistik. Erörtert werden dabei auf verschiedene Weisen sowohl theoretische als auch empirische Fragestellungen.

The volume «Language and Identity in Migration Contexts», which contains studies from different languages and migration contexts across the world, provides an excellent overview of the topic while highlighting some key elements like multilingualism, societal and educational contexts, as well as forced migration. The volume will therefore be of much interest to researchers working on these topics. (Prof. Dr. Anita Auer, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)The contributions to this volume shed a new light on various central topics in the discourses on language, migration and identity. The continued centrality of language on identity formation processes is underlined but it is shown that language is not a defining criterion for identity formation processes of migrants, in the context of migration or for heritage speakers in all cases. However, societal contexts play an important role in identity formation and these societal contexts themselves are strongly influenced by the ideologies that are prevalent in societies and that may be perpetuated in educational contexts. In the discussion of language, identity and migration in this volume, perspectives from the Global North are enriched by perspectives of the Global South, and the impact of media influence in migration discourse is analysed.

Dieser Sammelband besteht zur Hälfte aus Referaten eines Festkolloquiums zu Ehren von Klaus Mattheiers 60. Geburtstag, das im Juli 2001 in Heidelberg stattfand. Die andere Hälfte der Beiträge haben Schüler, Kollegen und Freunde beigesteuert. Die inhaltlich weit gefächerten Beiträge behandeln drei Forschungsschwerpunkte von Klaus Mattheier: die Sprachgeschichte, die Sprachinselforschung und die Variationslinguistik. Erörtert werden dabei auf verschiedene Weisen sowohl theoretische als auch empirische Fragestellungen.