Just published : "Le multilinguisme urbain. Le cas de Bruxelles", by Rudi Janssens (Editions Racine, Brussels, 2014, 154p.). This is an important event for the spreading of knowledge among Brusselers about their own linguistic situation. In 2001, 2006 and 2011, a team headed by VUB researcher Rudi Janssens collected a large amount of data from a representative sample of 2500 adult Brussels residents, mainly about their linguistic competence and practices. All three of these "taalbarometers" led to a book-length publication in Dutch, each of them authored by Rudi Janssens : "Taalgebruik in Brussels" (VUB Press, 2001), "Van Brussel gesproken" (VUB Press, 2007) and "Meertaligheid als cement van de stedelijke samenleving" (VUB Press, 2012). For the first time, this latter publication has also been made available in French : "Le multilinguisme urbain". Read more...