Language and social change in Central Europe

Titel: Language and social change in Central Europe : discourses on policy, identity and the German language / Patrick Stevenson and Jenny Carl
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Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2010
Umfang: VII, 292 S. : Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9780748635986 ; 074863598X
Lokale Klassifikation: 31 15 L ; 59 15 L ; 59 7 R ; 31 10 A ; 60 7 R ; 59 10 A
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. viii
  • List of Tables
  • p. ix
  • Transcription Conventions
  • p. x
  • Map of Central Europe
  • p. xi
  • 1
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 2
  • Discourses on Language in Social Life: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations
  • p. 10
  • 2.1
  • Introduction
  • p. 10
  • 2.2
  • Discourses on language
  • p. 11
  • 2.3
  • Theorising discourses on language as language ideologies
  • p. 14
  • 2.4
  • Questions of scale and the interconnectedness of discourses on language: methodological implications
  • p. 34
  • 2.5
  • Summary and conclusions
  • p. 39
  • 3
  • Sociolinguistic Histories and the Footprint of German in Eastern Central Europe
  • p. 43
  • 3.1
  • Introduction
  • p. 43
  • 3.2
  • The present situation
  • p. 45
  • 3.3
  • A look back into history
  • p. 50
  • 3.4
  • The long nineteenth century: the emergence of 'modern' linguistic nationalisms
  • p. 53
  • 3.5
  • New nation-states after the First World War
  • p. 57
  • 3.6
  • After the Second World War: linguistic nationalisms and the German language during the communist era
  • p. 61
  • 3.7
  • Back in the present day: the situation after 1989
  • p. 66
  • 3.8
  • Legal frameworks of language and cultural policy: national and ethnic minorities in the Czech Republic and Hungary
  • p. 68
  • 3.9
  • Conclusions
  • p. 79
  • 4
  • Language Policy Discourses: Interventions and Intersections
  • p. 82
  • 4.1
  • Introduction
  • p. 82
  • 4.2
  • European level discourses
  • p. 86
  • 4.3
  • Discourses at national level I: foreign cultural policy in Austria and Germany
  • p. 98
  • 4.4
  • Discourses at national level II: internal language policy in the Czech Republic and Hungary
  • p. 107
  • 4.5
  • Conclusions
  • p. 124
  • 5
  • Language (Auto)biographies: Narrating Multilingual Selves
  • p. 127
  • 5.1
  • Introduction
  • p. 127
  • 5.2
  • Narrative organisation and the creation of coherence
  • p. 129
  • 5.3
  • Creating senses of self and identity in life stories
  • p. 137
  • 5.4
  • Language biographies: on being a German-speaker
  • p. 139
  • 5.5
  • Conclusions
  • p. 158
  • 6
  • Language Ideologies: Negotiating Linguistic Identities
  • p. 161
  • 6.1
  • Introduction
  • p. 161
  • 6.2
  • Categorisation and contextualisation
  • p. 162
  • 6.3
  • Categorisation and representation
  • p. 168
  • 6.4
  • Positioning and identification
  • p. 181
  • 6.5
  • Agency, time and place
  • p. 191
  • 6.6
  • Conclusions
  • p. 199
  • 7
  • Conclusions
  • p. 202
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A
  • European Institutions and Documents Concerning Language Policy
  • p. 208
  • Appendix B
  • Preamble to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
  • p. 212
  • Appendix C
  • Introduction to the 2005 Commission Communication 'A New Framework Strategy for Multilingualism'
  • p. 214
  • Appendix D
  • Introduction to the 2008 Commission Communication 'Multilingualism: an asset for Europe and a shared commitment'
  • p. 216
  • Appendix E
  • German and Austrian agents and institutions in foreign cultural policy
  • p. 218
  • Appendix F
  • Extract from 'Auswärtige Kulturpolitik - Konzeption 2000'
  • p. 222
  • Appendix G
  • Central focus - 'Leitbild' - of the Goethe-Institut
  • p. 225
  • Appendix H
  • Austria's Auslandskulturkonzept NEU
  • p. 227
  • Appendix I
  • Plattform Kultur Mitteleuropa - Platform Culture Central Europe
  • p. 230
  • Appendix J
  • Extract from Austria Kultur int - Tätigkeitsbericht 2002
  • p. 231
  • Appendix K
  • Czech 2001 White Paper on Education
  • p. 234
  • Appendix L
  • Czech 2004 Education Act
  • p. 237
  • Appendix M
  • Extract from Czech Follow-up of Action Plan on Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity
  • p. 241
  • Appendix N
  • Hungarian 1997 Directive Concerning the Education for National and Ethnic Minorities
  • p. 243
  • Appendix O
  • Extract from 2007 Hungarian National Core Curriculum
  • p. 246
  • Appendix P
  • Extract from Hungarian Follow-up of Action Plan for Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity
  • p. 253
  • References
  • p. 255
  • Index
  • p. 273