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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abstract -- Vorwort der Herausgeber -- Group boundaries and identity -- Language Choice and Identity in Post-Soviet Armenia (Stefan Rabanus and Haykanush Barseghyan) -- Linguistic Strategies of Constructing Durable and Permeable Ethnic Boundaries in a Brazilian Quilombo Community (Rita Vallentin) -- The Cyrillic Script as a Boundary Marker between "Insiders" and "Outsiders": Metalinguistic Discourse about Script Choices in Slavic-German Bilingual Computer-Mediated Communication (Bernhard Brehmer) -- Ethnic boundaries and minorities -- Language and Ethnic Boundaries in Multiethnic Georgia (Lia Melikishvili and Natia Jalabadze) -- Roma school mediation in Germany - Its Effects and Limitations (Maria Klessmann) -- Labeling difference - On discrimination and the social standing of children fathered by US soldiers during the Vietnam War (Sascha Wölck and Christina Rogers) -- Linguistic borders - language conflicts. Pleading for recognition of their reality. (Harald Weydt) -- Boundaries and language islands -- Anything goes? The gains and losses of the constructivist view on ethnicity: Some considerations based on German "language islands" studies. (Peter Rosenberg) -- Linguistic splits along religious lines: The role of language maintenance among Catholics and Lutherans in Texas (Hans C. Boas) -- Gray zones: The fluidity of Wisconsin German language and identification (Samantha Litty, Christine Evans and Joseph Salmons) -- Language borders and discourse -- Crossing the Border, Closing the Gap: Otherness in Language Use (Konstanze Jungbluth) -- The permeability of language borders on the example of German-Polish language mixing (Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes) -- Boundary, a metalinguistic concept at the core of language deformability (Helena Topa Valentim)

This volume focuses on the linguistic constructs involved in ethnic borders. Ethnic borders have proven themselves to be surprisingly long-lived: in nearly all European countries and beyond, border demarcation, exclusion of foreigners, and minority conflicts are some of the most persistent challenges for nations and societies. Which linguistic factors play a role in the formation of these borders, especially those drawn along ethnic lines? Which linguistic constructs contribute to the negotiation, establishment and maintenance of ethnic groups and identities? Under which conditions can processes of linguistic convergence, hybrids, or transcultural identities be observed?