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Verlagsinfo: This volume emphasizes the energetic nature of linguistic diversity and its consequences of how we think about language, how it affects the individual, education in school, and urban spaces across the globe. Hence, linguistic diversity reflects the constant state of rapid change prevalent in modern societies bearing opportunities as well as challenges. It is the prime objective of this selection of contributions to give a differentiated picture of the chances of linguistic diversity. Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity pays tribute to more recent developments in the study of language, applied linguistics, and education sciences. Contributions in this volume discuss how the concept of language is contextualized in a world of polylanguaging, investigate latent factors of influence, multilingual individuals, multilingual proficiency, multilingual practices and development, multilingual communication as well as teaching practices and whether they foster or hamper multilingual development.

This volume explores "performative linguistic space", namely a space which ushers or hinders linguistic practices. Space is made productive as a result of individuals who bring linguistic politics from diverse spaces into new ones. By moving away from the notions of discrete units of language and linguistic communities associated with a specific space, this volume suggests a fluid productive aspect of space. It goes beyond the assumed space-linguistic community association through ethnographic accounts that mediate linguistic anthropology, cultural geography, sociolinguistics, and deaf studies

Forschungen zu Linguistic Landscapes stellen ein relativ junges Feld der Soziolinguistik dar, das sich der Präsenz geschriebener Sprache im öffentlichen Raum widmet. Grundlegend für die Etablierung dieser Forschungsrichtung war der Aufsatz von Landry & Bourhis (1997), der sowohl die Bezeichnung Linguistic Landscapes einführte (LL) als auch den Forschungsgegenstand definierte [.] Ausgehend von Landry & Bourhis widmeten sich zahlreiche Studien der LL aus den verschiedensten thematischen Perspektiven, unter denen Mehrsprachigkeit, Minderheitensprachen, Sprachideologie, Kommodifizierung und Tourismus eine zentrale Rolle spielten. [.] Im Folgenden soll die Bedeutung der historischen sozio-ökonomischen Entwicklung für die LL ausführlicher beschrieben werden, um so zu zeigen, dass ohne die entsprechenden sozio-ökonomischen Prozesse eine LL im modernen Sinne nicht existieren würde, womit gleichzeitig auf die Kritik an den üblicherweise urbanen Erhebungsorten eingegangen wird. Im Anschluss daran soll eine kurze Darstellung der historischen Konfliktlagen der häufigsten Zielregionen von LL-Studien aufzeigen, in welcher Weise diese die LL-Perspektive möglicherweise einseitig geprägt haben. Die Präsenz vergleichbarer Strukturen in fast allen Forschungsregionen von LL-Studien wird ebenfalls aufgezeigt und die sich daraus ableitende Problematik für die Auswahl neuer Forschungsorte und -themen beschrieben. ; This paper introduces Linguistic Landscape research as a field of sociolinguistic. Its foundations going back to the late 1990s, Linguistic Landscape studies focuses on the presence of written language in public space and its political, economic and societal meaning – often touching on the relationship of minority and majority languages. I will present the historical foundations of Linguistic Landscapes and present applications of Linguistic Landscape research. Within this context I will also address methodological and theoretical issues and problems such as the implications deriving from the definition of the basic unit of analysis (sign) or the missing differentiation of the term "minority" (allochtonous vs. autochtoneous).

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such thinking has held implications for the setting of language policies, from hanging a wooden clog around the neck of a child heard speaking Occitan in Southern France to the considerable budgeting in Ireland for the promotion of Irish.In this book, Paulston presents an analytical framework for explaining and predicting the language behaviour of social groups as such behaviour relates to linguistic policies for minority groups. She argues that a number of factors must be considered in the understanding and establishment of language policies for minority groups:(1) if language planning is to be successful, it must consider the social context of language problems, (2) the linguistic consequences for social groups in contact will vary depending on the focus of social mobilization, i.e. ethnicity or nationalism, and (3) a major problem in the accurate prediction of such linguistic consequences lies in identifying the salient factors which contribute to language maintenance or shift, i.e. answering the question "under what conditions?".Part I outlines and discusses the analytical framework, beginning with a general consideration of language problems and language policies and of the social factors which contribute to language maintenance and shift. The author continues to discuss four distinct types of social mobilization, which under certain specified social conditions result in different linguistic consequences: ethnicity, ethnic movements, ethnic nationalism, and geographic nationalism. The argument is that such an understanding is vital to helpful educational policies and successful language planning in general.Part II contrasts and compares a number of case studies for clarification of their diverse courses of mother tongue maintenance. It particularly seeks to illustrate the type of social mobilization discussed in Part I and to understand the social conditions which influence and alter the effects of the type of social mobilization.

Argues that foreign language training, especially the learning of English, is vital to the effectiveness of North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) peace-support operations and the Alliance's enlargement and Partnership activities. Poor language skills can lead to mistakes in peace-support operations resulting in casualties and may reduce the influence of some nations and create unnecessary tension and frustration; and more must be done to train and retain soldiers with relevant skills for international assignments.