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Aspects of Multilingualism in European Border Regions
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Aspects of multilingualism in European border regions
insights and views from Alsace, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, the Lublin Voivodeship and South Tyrol
AUTHOR: Editors: Andrea Abel ; Mathias Stuflesser ; Leonhard Voltmer
LOCATION: Bolzano
PUBLISHER: Eurac Research
PUBLISHING DATE: [2007]
PAGES: 262 S.
ISBN 978-88-88906-34-8
PRICE: 15,00 €
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 | SHORT DESCRIPTION | | | This publication is the fruit of the INTERREG IIIC project „Language Bridges", an initiative within the EU Regional Framework Operation „Change on Borders". One of the goals of "Language Bridges" was to examine the role of languages in border regions and more specifically to describe the role played by motivation and attitudes in language learning. A further aim was to promote awareness that linguistic variation is an asset in economic and cultural terms.
The findings of the present study are not only addressed to the scientific community, but also to the general public: they reveal the multifaceted influence on language learning exerted by the (political, legal, social etc.) context.
The present publication focuses on the linguistic situation obtaining in the following border regions: Alsace, Delta-Rhodopi, Lublin and South Tyrol and includes four specific chapters written by the relevant partners. Strating from a common conception the partners chose to emphasise various aspects, such as "Language use and language awareness", "Languages in education and training", "Language and cross-border co-operation".
The authors give different weight to various aspects and adopt different approaches: the contribution on Alsace was mainly written by dialectologists, that on Delta-Rhodopi by anthropologists, the one on Lublin by sociologists and finally the study on South Tyrol by a lawyer, a literary critic and a pedagogue amongst others. |
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