Urban multilingualism in Europe : immigrant minority languages at home and school / edited by Guus Extra and Kutlay Yaǧmur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Extra, Guus.

Yaǧmur, Kutlay, 1961-

Series:

Multilingual Matters S.

Multilingual matters ; 130

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Europe.

Multilingualism.

Linguistic minorities--Europe.

Linguistic minorities.

Immigrants--Europe--Language.

Immigrants.

Language and education--Europe.

Language and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book focuses on the increase of urban multilingualism in Europe as a consequence of processes of migration and minorisation. It offers multidisciplinary, crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on immigrant minority languages at home and in school in six multicultural cities across Europe. In each of these cities, Germanic or Romance languages have a dominant status in public life. This Multilingual Cities Project is based on large-scale empirical findings and has been carried out under the auspices of the European Cultural Foundation, in Amsterdam. Part I offers multidisciplinary background information on phenomenological, demographic, language rights and educational aspects of the status of immigrant minority communities and their languages in a variety of international contexts. Part II offers methodological considerations on the Multilingual Cities Project. In addition, it presents both national and local perspectives on multilingualism in each of the six cities under consideration. Each chapter provides information on the distribution and vitality of immigrant minority languages spoken at home and on the status of these languages in primary and secondary schools. Part III offers crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on the twenty most prominent languages that emerge from the study. The focus is again on the two major private and public domains in which language transmission may or may not occur: the home and the school, respectively. The book offers a challenging outlook on the educational management of language diversity in the increasingly multicultural and multilingual context of European nation-states.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Phenomenological perspectives

3. Demographic perspectives

4. Language rights perspectives

5. Educational perspectives

6. Methodological considerations

7. Multilingualism in Göteborg

8. Multilingualism in Hamburg

9. Multilingualism in The Hague

10. Multilingualism in Brussels

11. Multilingualism in Lyon

12. Multilingualism in Madrid

13. Crossnational perspectives on language groups

14. Crosslinguistic perspectives on language groups

15. Crossnational perspectives on community language teaching

16. Conclusions and discussion

Appendices

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786610828487

9781280828485

128082848X

9781853597800

1853597805

OCLC:

567989166