Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism 3
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004
ISBN: 978 90 272 1923 7
In a world of increasing migration and technological progress,
multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the
exception. This book reflects the growing interest in understanding
communication between members of different linguistic groups and
contains a collection of original papers by members of the German
Science Foundation’s research center on multilingualism at Hamburg
University and by international experts, offering an overview of the
most important research fields in multilingual communication. The book
is divided into four sections dealing with interpreting and
translation, code-switching in various institutional contexts, two
important strands of multilingual communication: rapport and
politeness, and contrastive studies of Japanese and German grammar and
discourse. The editors’ preface presents the relevant theoretical and
methodological background to the issues discussed in this book and
points to useful directions for future research.
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