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Programme: accepted abstracts

Abstract ID: 1375

Part of General Paper Session (Other abstracts in this session)

Multilingual spaces – Istanbul, Barcelona, Hamburg

Authors: Rehbein, Götz Jochen
Submitted by: Rehbein, Götz Jochen (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

Spaces for multilingual communication are created by urbanization and migrations. Multilingualism cannot be understood as a phenomenon of belonging to various isolated areas, but as the configuration of linguistic constellations. In this respect, the difference between regional languages and immigrant languages has become blurred. The paper discusses three multilingual settings – Istanbul, Barcelona, Hamburg – and the role of urban space and the institutions that interact there in linguistic exchange. Three quite different ways of making multilingual communication are outlined. Variables such as social and economic structure, linguistic policies, history or the hierarchy of linguistic varieties explain these differences and enable points of comparison to be established. finally, certain measures are proposed that are essential to practicing multilingual communication and to expanding respect for citizens’ linguistic rights.

Reference:

Pere Comellas i Conxita Lleó (eds.): Recerca i gestió del multilingüisme. Algunes propostes des d’Europa. Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung und Mehrsprachigkeitsmanagement. Europäische Ansichten. Münster, New York, Berlin: Waxmann