Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic Analyses, Language Policies, and Didactic Concepts

Jan D. Ten Thije, Ludger Zeevaert

John Benjamins Publishing, Jan 1, 2007 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 328 pages

Receptive multilingualism refers to the language constellation in which interlocutors use their respective mother tongue while speaking to each other. Since the mid-nineties receptive multilingualism is promoted by the European commission on par with other possibilities of increasing the mobility of the European citizens. Throughout the last ten years a marked increase in the research on this topic has been observable. This volume reveals new perspectives from different theoretical frameworks on linguistic analyses of receptive multilingualism in Europe. Case studies are presented from contemporary settings, along with analyses of historical examples, theoretical considerations and, finally, descriptions of didactical concepts established in order to transfer and disseminate receptive multilingual competence. The book contains results from research carried out at the Research Center on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg as well as contributions by various international scholars working in the field of receptive multilingualism.

Contents

• Historical development of receptive multilingualism: 7
• Testing mutual understanding in receptive multilingual communication: 14
• Linguistic diversity in Habsburg Austria as a model: 49
• Receptive multilingualism in DutchGerman intercultural team cooperation: 73
• Receptive multilingualism and interScandinavian semicommunication: 103
• Receptive multilingualism in Switzerland and the case of BielBienne: 137
• The Swiss model of plurilingual communication: 159
• Receptive multilingualism in business discourses: 179
• Understanding differences in interScandinavian language understanding: 217
• Scandinavian intercomprehension today: 231
• Linguistic and extralinguistic: 249
• Processing levels in foreignlanguage reading: 265
• A computerbased exploration of the lexical possibilities: 285
• How can DaFnE and EuroComGerm contribute to the concept of receptive: 307
• Name index: 323

Bibliographic information

• Title: Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic Analyses, Language Policies, and Didactic Concepts; Volume 6 of Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, ISSN 1571-4934
• Editors: Jan D. Ten Thije, Ludger Zeevaert
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing, 2007
• ISBN: 9027219265, 9789027219268
• Length: 328 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General