基本説明
This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. The authors of this volume provide a comprehensive overview of the emergence of a standard language ideology and its intricate relationship with matters of ethnicity, territorial unity and social mobility.
Full Description
This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. It argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. In its extreme form, it became manifest in the principle of 'one language, one state, one people'. Consequently, multilingualism came to be viewed as an undesirable aberration. The authors of this volume approach the relationship between standard languages and multilingualism from a historical, cross-European perspective. They provide a comprehensive overview of the emergence of a standard language ideology and its intricate relationship with matters of ethnicity, territorial unity and social mobility. They explain for different European language areas in what ways the emergence of standard languages had an impact on multilingual policies and practices. Its comparative approach makes this volume an important resource for linguists, researchers from different philologies and social historians.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Multilingualism in a standard language culture (by Vogl, Ulrike); 3. I. Theoretical considerations and historical background; 4. Myths we live and speak by: Ways of imagining and managing language and languages (by Davies, Winifred V.); 5. Marching forward into the past: Monolingual multilingualism in contemporary political theory (by Peled, Yael); 6. Language and ethnicity in a European context (by Haarmann, Harald); 7. II. Case-studies: The changing relationship between standard languages and other varieties; 8. Multilingual speakers in a monolingual society: From the history and present state of language planning in Iceland (by Haselow, Alexander); 9. Multilingualism and standardization in Greece (by Mackridge, Peter); 10. The development of Finnish into a national language (by Saari, Mirja); 11. Traces of monolingual and plurilingual ideologies in the history of language policies in France (by Ludi, Georges); 12. Centripetal and centrifugal forces in the sociolinguistic configuration of the Iberian Peninsula (by Anipa, Kormi); 13. Dutch in Belgium: Facing multilingualism in a context of regional monolingualism and Standard Language Ideology (by De Caluwe, Johan); 14. The Caucasus: Scenarios of ethnic conflict and trajectories of standardization (by Haarmann, Harald); 15. Multilingualism and the disputed standardizations of Macedonian and Moldovan (by Ciscel, Matthew H.); 16. Index; 17. Name index; 18. Language index; 19. Index of geographical names; 20. Subject index
