Book review

[Harold F. Schiffman]

BEYOND BOUNDARIES: Language & Identity in Contemporary Europe, edited by
Paul Gubbins and Mike Holt, (University of Salford)

Publisher: Multilingual Matters Publication Year: 2002

Editor: Paul Gubbins, Mike Holt


KEY FEATURES This book illustrates that transnational, national, regional
and local change is manifest in a variety of linguistic and other ways and
confirms that language identity in Europe is diverse, complex and
ever-changing. Some contributions focus on territorial and regional issues
and others on multiple identities associated with migration and urban
environments, while others are concerned with identity in relation to the
state or the individual.

DESCRIPTION Language and identity are closely interwoven: this collection
of essays examines their relationship in a multicultural Europe and beyond
and explores various ways in which language is used to forge class,
regional and national identity. The question of multiple identity and the
role of English are also considered.

CONTENTS Introduction Paul Gubbins and Mike Holt (University of Salford)
1. Language, Nationalism and Globalisation: the Political and Educational
Consequences of Changing Patterns of Language Use Stephen Barbour
(University of East Anglia);  2. Who we are and where we're going:
Language and Identities in the new Europe Jenny Cheshire (Queen Mary &
Westfield College, London);  3. The Lexicon in European Languages Today:
Unification or Diversification Richard Trim (University of Aix-Marseille
I, France);  4. Lost in Translation: EU Language Policy in an Expanded
Europe Paul Gubbins;  5. Identity in Transition: Cultural Memory, Language
and Symbolic Russianness Harald Haarmann (University of Helsinki);  6.
Transformation of the State in Western Europe: Regionalism in Catalonia
and Northern Italy B. Murphy, C. Diaz-Varela, S. Rino Coluccello
(University of Coventry);  7. Fixing National Borders: Language and
Loyalty in Nice Sue Wright (Aston University);  8.The French Language,
Universalism and Post-colonial Identity Mike Holt ;  9. 'It's a culture
thing': Children, Language and Boundary in the Bicultural Family, Michael
Anderson (University of Newcastle);  10. Language-use and Identity among
African-Caribbean Young People in Sheffield Lerleen Willis (Nottingham
Trent University);  11. Punjabi-Urdu in Sheffield: Language Maintenance
and Loss and Development of a Mixed Code <br>Mike Reynolds (University of
Sheffield)

EDITOR INFORMATION

Paul Gubbins, a former journalist, teaches German at the University of
Salford. His research interests include language planning and policy and
the international language Esperanto. Mike Holt is a lecturer in Arabic at
the University of Salford. He has published work on Arabic linguistics and
language and geopolitics.

Multilingual Matters 122 May 2002 Format 210 x 148mm vi +162 pp Hbk
1-85359-556-X 49.95 / US$79.95 / CAN$99.95 Pbk 1-85359-555-1 19.95 /
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