Book ? ?The Consequences of Mobility : Linguistic and Sociocultural Contact Zones?
Mobility
Unpack the profound effects of human mobility on language and society. Discover how linguistic and sociocultural contact zones redefine communication and cultural identities.
Articles in this Journal
Bilingualism in North-East France with specific reference to Rhenish Franconian spoken by Moselle Cross-border (or frontier) workers
This chapter examines the phenomena of bilingualism in the contact zone of the Moselle area of North-East France on the border with the Saarland, where cross-border workers negotiate linguistic identity in the context of interaction with German and...
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Mobility, contact and an accent norm: the case of Received Pronunciation
This paper will focus on various facets of RP as an accent norm. In the first part of the paper I will set the stage for a renewed sociolinguistic view of RP, and examine some of the e ffects of social and geographical mobility and contact on RP. At...
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Language and identity in post-Soviet Moldova
The multilingual Republic of Moldova emerged from the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 as an example of the linguistic complications that can result from imperial domination and the mobility associated with political change. The study draws on his...
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The Portuguese diaspora in Jersey
This present paper concerns recent migrations from the Portuguese mainland and from the island of Madeira to the English and French speaking territory of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. On-going research is being carried out with a group...
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Promoting linguistic diversity Reflections on the language policy of European language policy conferences
To face up to the omnipresence of ?Anglo-American? (as defined in footnote 2), conferences on language policy today address the issue of promoting linguistic diversity. This especially applies to contemporary Europe. Nevertheless, these conferences,...
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Over the fence ? and into English? Reflections on adolescents, academics, linguistic development and language policy in Norway in the early 2000s
After a discussion of recent language-policy developments in the Scandinavian countries, and of the domain loss theory saying English may displace Scandinavian languages in crucial sectors of society, a model is sketched that links the progress of E...
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Deconstructing ?the domain of science? as a sociolinguistic entity in EFL societies: The relationship between English and Danish in higher education and research
Preisler introduces the Danish debate concerning the influence of English on Danish language and language use, and ? drawing on previous research ? describes what he sees as the two ?sides? in the debate: (1) the ?followers,? i.e. the vast majority...
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Domains and domain loss
The domain concept, originally suggested by Schmidt-Rohr in the 1930s (as credited in Fishman?s writings in the 1970s), was an attempt to sort out different areas of language use in multilingual societies, which are relevant for language choice. In...
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To translate or not to translate: Attitudes to English loanwords in Norwegian
The ?fast forward? button for the influx of English loanwords1 into the Scandinavian languages has long since been pressed. The views on this phenomenon, both in academic and non-academic circles, can generally be divided into two categories. On the...
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Linguistic socialization and social identity Arab students in a mixed college in Israel
The following article brings results from an error analysis of data collected from Arab students whose L1 is Arabic and L2 is Hebrew. The subjects participated in a Project of Democracy and Co-Existence between Arab and Jewish students, which took p...
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Languaculture as a key concept in language and culture teaching
Are language and culture inseparable, or are they separable? Neither of these positions is tenable, and in order to find a solution to this seeming paradox, it is useful to develop a theoretical understanding of the concept of languaculture. The poi...
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Intercultural understanding in teaching and learning English An opportunity for Swedish compulsory education
The aim of this study is to examine the prospects of developing intercultural understanding through English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Swedish comprehensive school. The study draws on perspectives applied to culture theory (Street, Hannerz,...
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Towards the development of a plurilingual and pluricultural competence
In 2001, the CRAPEL ran an experimental course in both English and Spanish for French-speaking adult beginners. This course, which was aimed at learners wishing to study two languages without having to follow two separate courses, was based on an in...
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The ?Competent Foreigner? A new model for foreign language didactics?
The traditional schema of the language learning-teaching situation is being increasingly challenged by didacticians, sociolinguists and cognitive psychologists, and in particular the constitutive roles of teacher, learner and native speaker have bee...
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Affect and the EFL Classroom: Language Contact in Addressing
This study investigates affect or affective elements between the teacher and students in EFL classroom interaction. Affect is regarded as a linguistically significant phenomenon in interactions, which are analysed contextually. The focus is on addre...
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