Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts
Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism 6
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007, ISBN: 978 90 272 1926 8
Receptive multilingualism refers to the language constellation in which
interlocutors use their respective mother tongue while speaking to each
other. Since the mid-nineties receptive multilingualism is promoted by
the European commission on par with other possibilities of increasing
the mobility of the European citizens. Throughout the last ten years a
marked increase in the research on this topic has been observable. This
volume reveals new perspectives from different theoretical frameworks
on linguistic analyses of receptive multilingualism in Europe. Case
studies are presented from contemporary settings, along with analyses
of historical examples, theoretical considerations and, finally,
descriptions of didactical concepts established in order to transfer
and disseminate receptive multilingual competence. The book contains
results from research carried out at the Research Center on
Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg as well as contributions
by various international scholars working in the field of receptive
multilingualism.