Books in the Multilingual Matters series

The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together.

This book explores heritage language learning, in particular Chinese Australians' learning of Chinese. The book is based on a mixed methods study which uses Bourdieu's sociological theory, and offers implications for sociologists of language and education, Chinese heritage language learners and teachers, and language and cultural policy makers.

This book is an anthology of articles on teaching English to speakers of other languages. The emphasis is on practical concerns of classroom procedures and on the cross-cultural aspects of teaching English around the world. Several of the articles focus on communicative language teaching.

This book deals with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena and addressing issues such as bilingual usage, acquisition, teaching, and language planning and policy. The volume's major asset lies in its diversity of topics and in the range of languages and geographical regions covered.

This book provides critical insights into the English-medium instruction experiences which have been implemented at a number of universities in countries such as China, Finland, Israel, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain and the USA, which are characterised by differing political, cultural and sociolinguistic situations.

This book provides critical insights into the English-medium instruction experiences which have been implemented at a number of universities in countries such as China, Finland, Israel, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain and the USA, which are characterised by differing political, cultural and sociolinguistic situations.

This book is the first comprehensive approach to language on signs and provides a unique research perspective to urban multilingualism. It offers an up-to-date review of previous research, introduces a coherent analytical framework, and applies this framework to a sample of signs collected in Tokyo.

This book traces the history and development of language defence in France and examines the sometimes contradictory attitudes of French people to their beloved language. It assesses the necessity for and the usefulness of the many activities in defence of French and suggests what its future might be.

This book explores research being carried out on linguistic practices among adolescents in multilingual urban Scandinavia. It analyses new linguistic practices, examines how these practices are perceived and discusses how their speakers construct their identities, giving an insight into the linguistic realities of young people in the 21st century.

Combining theory-oriented and empirical approaches, this book analyzes modes of identity construction in public discourse, particularly focusing on national and cross-national rhetorical strategies related to European Union enlargement and EU policy towards southeast Europe.