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Overview
This book focuses on the increase of urban multilingualism in Europe as a consequence of processes of migration and minorisation. It offers multidisciplinary, crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on immigrant minority languages at home and in school in six multicultural cities across Europe. In each of these cities, Germanic or Romance languages have a dominant status in public life. This Multilingual Cities Project is based on large-scale empirical findings and has been carried out under the auspices of the European Cultural Foundation, in Amsterdam.Synopsis
This collection examines the increase of European urban multilingualism in the domestic and public domains resulting from migration. Based on large-scale empirical studies, the essays focus on six European cities where Germanic or Romance languages are dominant. The first group of essays provides a multidisciplinary background on the status of immigrant communities and their languages. Subsequent essays describe the methodology used in the Multilingual Cities Project which generated this volume. The final group of papers looks at the 20 most prominent languages found in the study and at the problems of language transmission between home and school. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR