Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism: The DYLAN Project
[Book Description]
This book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and its uses in a context of rapid changes, in Europe and around the world. All types of organisations, including the political institutions of the European Union, universities and private-sector companies must rise to the many challenges posed by operating in a multilingual environment. This requires them, in particular, to make the best use of speakers' very diverse linguistic repertoires. The contributions in this volume, which stem from the DYLAN research project financed by the European Commission as part of its Sixth Framework Programme, examine at close range how these repertoires develop, how they change and how actors adapt skilfully the use of their repertoires to different objectives and conditions. These different strategies are also examined in terms of their capacity to ensure efficient and fair communication in a multilingual Europe. Careful observation of actors' multilingual practices reveals finely tuned communicational strategies drawing on a wide range of different languages, including national languages, minority languages and lingue franche.Understanding these practices, their meaning and their implications, helps to show in what way and under what conditions they are not merely a response to a problem, but an asset for political institutions, universities and business.
[Table of Contents]
Introduction ix
Anne-Claude Berthoud
Fran輟is Grin
Georges L?di
Part I. Companies
Chapter 1 Multilingual practices in 3 (30)
professional settings: Keeping the delicate
balance between progressivity and
intersubjectivity
Vassiliki Markaki
Sara Merlino
Lorenza Mondada
Florence Oloff
Veronique Traverso
Chapter 2 The practical processing of 33 (26)
plurilingualism as a resource in professional
activities: 'Border-crossing' and languaging'
in multilingual workplaces
Luca Greco
Patrick Renaud
Roxana Taquechel
Chapter 3 Multilingualism and diversity 59 (24)
management in companies in the Upper Rhine
Region
Georges L?di
Katharina H?chle
Patchareerat Yanaprasart
Chapter 4 Representations of multilingualism 83 (18)
and management of linguistic diversity in
companies: Intertwining of collective
monophony and polyphony in individual
enunciators
Arlette Bothorel-Witz
Irini Tsamadou-Jacoberger
Chapter 5 A social representational 101(20)
perspective on languages and their management
in the Danish corporate sector
Sharon Millar
Sylvie Cifuentes
Astrid Jensen
Chapter 6 What can Gaelic teach us about 121(16)
effective policy through planning? Strategies
in Gaelic language planning
Lindsay Milligan
Douglas Chalmers
Hugh O'Donnell
Chapter 7 Language diversity management on 137(20)
corporate websites
Patchareerat Yanaprasart
Thiresia Choremi
Filippo Gander
Part II. European institutions
Chapter 8 Language competence and language 157(22)
choice within EU institutions and their
effects on national legislative authorities
Jan Kruse
Ulrich Ammon
Chapter 9 EU and lesser-used languages: 179(26)
Slovene language in EU institutions
Mojca Stritar
Marko Stabej
Chapter 10 Dynamics of multilingualism in 205(24)
post-Enlargement EU institutions:
Perceptions, Conceptions and Practices
Michal Krzytanowski
Ruth Wodak
Part III. Higher education
Chapter 11 Accomplishing multilingualism 229(24)
through plurilingual activities
Luci Nussbaum
Emily Moore
Eul瀝ia Borr灣
Chapter 12 Multilingual higher education 253(26)
between policies and practices: A case study
Daniela Veronesi
Lorenzo Spreafico
Cecilia Varcasia
Alessandra Vietti
Rita Franceschini
Chapter 13 Plurilingualisms and knowledge 279(20)
construction in higher education
Laurent Gajo
Anne Grobet
Cecilia Serra
Gabriela Steffen
Gabriela M?ller
Anne-Claude Berthoud
Chapter 14 Language policies in universities 299(24)
and their outcomes: The University of
Helsinki in a Northern European context
Tom Moring
Sebastian Godenhjelm
Saara Haapam臾i
Jan Lindstr?m
Jan-Ola ﾖstman
Mirja Saari
Jenny Sylvin
Chapter 15 Policies and practices of 323(20)
multilingualism at Babes-Bolyai University
(Cluj, Romania)
Stefan Oltean
Liana Pop
Diana Cotrau
Delia Marga
Manuela Mihaescu
Chapter 16 How policies influence 343(22)
multilingual education and the impact of
multilingual education on practices
Piet Van de Craen
Jill Surmont
Evy Ceuleers
Laure Allain
Part IV. Transversal issues
Chapter 17 Assessing efficiency and fairness 365(22)
in multilingual communication: Theory and
application through indicators
Fran輟is Grin
Michele Gazzola
Chapter 18 English as a lingua franca in 387(20)
European multilingualism
Cornelia H?lmbauer
Barbara Seidlhofer
Chapter 19 Europe's multilingualism in the 407(22)
context of a European culture of standard
languages
Olivier Moliner
Ulrike Vogl
Matthias H?ning
Conclusion 429(8)
Anne-Claude Berthoud
Fran輟is Grin
Georges L?di
Index 437
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