The Multilingual Challenge - Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

This collection of scholarly articles is the first to address the challenges of multilingualism from a multidisciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine both the beneficial and the problematic aspects of multilingualism in various dimensions, that is, they address familial, educational, academic, artistic, scientific, historical, professional, and geopolitical challenges.

About the author

Ulrike Jessner, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Product details

• Assisted by: J Kramsch (Editor), J Kramsch (Editor), Ulrik Jessner-Schmid (Editor), Ulrike Jessner-Schmid (Editor), Claire J. Kramsch (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2017
• EAN: 9781501516283
• ISBN: 978-1-5015-1628-3
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 22 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 549 g
• Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics; Trends in Applied Linguistics (TAL); Trends in Applied Linguistics; Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]; ISSN; Trends in Applied Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures