Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe: The German Language in a Multilingual Space

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Introduction: Central Europe as a Multilingual Space....Pages 1-20
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Discourses about Enlarged and Multilingual Europe: Perspectives from German and Polish National Public Spheres....Pages 23-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
The German Language in Poland: the Eternal Foe and the Wars on Words....Pages 51-72
‘Die härteste Sprachgrenze Europas?’ Negotiating the Linguistic Divide in Theatres on the German-Polish Border....Pages 73-95
Czech-German Relationships and Identity in a Cross-border Region....Pages 96-121
Czech, German and English: Finding Their Place in Multinational Companies in the Czech Republic....Pages 122-146
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Changes in the Linguistic Marketplace: The Case of German in Hungary....Pages 149-164
Central European Time: Memories of Language — Lost and Found — in the Life Stories of German-speakers....Pages 165-184
Dialect Use and Discursive Identities of Migrants from the West in Eastern Germany....Pages 185-202
¿Hablemos el mismo idioma? Salsa, Multilingualism and National Monolingual Ideology....Pages 203-223
Towards a Multinational Concept of Culture: Romanian German Literature in Romanian and Hungarian Literature....Pages 224-238
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Revisiting History: The 2007 European Capital of Culture and the Integration of Fractal Europe....Pages 241-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-268