The Multilingual Challenge : : Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives / / ed. by Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, Claire J. Kramsch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Aronin, Larissa,; Baider, Fabienne,; Ellis, Elizabeth,; Gohard-Radenkovic, Aline,; Gramling, David,; Heidenfeldt, William,; Hua, Zhu,; Jessner, Ulrike,; Kariolemou, Marilena,; Kramsch, Claire,; Lennon, Brian,; Lüdi, Georges,; McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa,; Osterkorn, Patrick K.,; Rong, Fu,; Safont-Jordà, Maria Pilar,; Vetter, Eva,; Wei, Li,; Zarate, Geneviève,; Zhang, Lihua,
• HerausgeberIn: Jessner-Schmid, Ulrike,; Kramsch, Claire J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] , 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (359 p.)

This collection of scholarly articles is the first to address the challenges of multilingualism from a multidisciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine both the beneficial and the problematic aspects of multilingualism in various dimensions, that is, they address familial, educational, academic, artistic, scientific, historical, professional, and geopolitical challenges.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Notes on the contributors -- Introduction: The multilingual challenge -- Part I: Familial challenges -- 1. Challenges of multilingualism to the family -- 2. The promotion of multilingualism in a Catalan-speaking area. Familial challenges in the Valencian Community -- Part II: Educational challenges -- 3. Conflict in the second language classroom: a teacher of Spanish facing the complicated dimensions of multilingualism -- 4. The legitimacy gap: multilingual language teachers in an era of globalization -- 5. « Le multilinguisme en question ? » – The case of minority language education in Brittany (France) -- Part III: Institutional challenges -- 6. Challenges to monolingual national literatures -- 7. Multilingual and intercultural competence on the threshold of the Third Reich -- 8. Linguistic Unheimlichkeit: the Armenian and Arab communities of Cyprus -- Part IV: Scientific challenges -- 9. Monolingualism and multilingualism in the construction and dissemination of scientific knowledge -- 10. Le Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme : une recherche internationale, face aux défis d’une conception plurilingue et d’une traduction en anglais et en chinois -- 11. Understanding current multilingualism: what can the butterfly tell us? -- Part V: Professional and geopolitical challenges -- 12. Language policy and planning in international organisations -- 13. Challenges within the ecology of multilingual interactions in Aboriginal cultural tourism in Central Australia -- Afterword: Challenging multilingualism -- Index