Sprache, Mehrsprachigkeit und sozialer Wandel / Language, Multilingualism and Social Change / Langue, multilinguisme et changement social – serie

A political science approach integrates multidisciplinary case studies about culture and language from multiple perspectives. Culture and language are viewed broadly with topics ranging widely across the conflict/cooperation continuum of human activities. Case studies involve four perspectives on culture and language – linguistic perspectives, cultural perspectives, identity perspectives, and visual perspectives. Each chapter is self-standing with conclusions about the case study at hand. The final chapter integrates all the case studies with separate conclusions about each of the four perspectives.

This book provides innovative research on the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism in the specific contexts of "micro-territories". Through the case studies of 10 micro-territories, the book offers a sociolinguistic analysis of two main types of smallness: islands such as Malta, Grenada, Sardinia, the Balearic islands and Taiwan, on the one hand, and small landlocked territories or countries such as Andorra, Aosta, Aran and Luxembourg, as well as the fragmented territory of Catalan-speaking Aragon, on the other hand. Taking into account the notion of micro-territory as a variable, language policies, language use and practices are analysed so as to offer new insights into the way multilingualism is conditioned by demographic and geographical factors. The book contains 5 chapters written in French, 5 in English, and an introduction in French.

L’objectif principal de ce volume est de rassembler les expériences d’un grand nombre de projets de doctorat et de post-doctorat en cours ou récemment achevés dans des contextes de plurilinguisme et d’hétérogénéité, en mettant l’accent en particulier sur la dimension méthodologique de ces recherches.The volume is composed of 12 studies focusing on the key questions related to the methods in research on pluri- and multilingualism. The studies combine research on pluri- and multilingualism experiencing linguistic heterogeneity. This is the normal case today both in migration societies and in societies that have been shaped by colonial experiences till date.

Ce livre est consacré à la transmission de la compétence plurilingue et pluriculturelle dans l’enseignement des langues étrangères. À cet effet, il recourt aux notions apparentées du translanguaging et de la didactique des langues tertiaires. Le volume offre des introductions à ces concepts-clés et réunit diverses études empiriques internationales dans le domaine du plurilinguisme en contexte institutionnel. This book explores aspects of the teaching of plurilingual and pluricultural competence in foreign languages education. To this end, it draws on the neighbouring concepts of translanguaging and tertiary language didactics. In addition to introductions to the main concepts of the volume, it offers insights into international empirical research in the field of institutional multilingualism research. Das Buch erschließt Aspekte der Vermittlung plurilingualer und plurikultureller Kompetenz im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Dazu greift es auf die benachbarten Begrifflichkeiten von translanguaging und Tertiärsprachendidaktik zurück. Neben Einführungen in die Leitkonzepte des Bandes bietet es Einblick in internationale empirische Projekte auf dem Gebiet der institutionellen Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung.