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This volume expands the discussion on the language management (LM) framework through two themes: interests and power, which are driving forces of the LM process, observable and describable at every step. It consists of thirteen contributions analyzing diverse situations in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Authors focus on a range of topics, including the role of language ideologies in various types of institutions, such as higher education institutions and language cultivation centers, the struggle to maintain minority languages, the positions of the actors involved in the process of making policies concerning foreign language teaching, or the processes that learning and choosing to use foreign languages entail. Emergent insights into the commonalities in the ways in which interests and power guide or underlie the management of language, communication, and sociocultural problems contribute significantly to the strength of LM as a sociolinguistic framework.

Les opinions que les locuteurs ordinaires, et pas seulement les linguistes de profession, portent sur les langues (c'est-à-dire les idéologies linguistiques) influencent les langues elles-mêmes, les transforment au fil du temps, et contribuent à la codification des normes. Ce volume offre une perspective comparative des débats principaux sur les langues romanes : Il traite les discussions animées sur le rapport entre les langues nationales et minoritaires et les dialectes, les doutes des locuteurs sur les relations complexes entre la norme et l'usage, et la langue utilisée dans le cinéma, la télévision et sur le web. L'analyse du discours et l'analyse linguistique textuelle de ces idéologies révèlent souvent des aspects négligés par les grammaires et les traitements linguistiques traditionnels.

Insights into Language Education Policies is of particular interest to academic researchers, policymakers, and teaching professionals interested in language education. It aims to provide the reader with critical insights into language education policies in diverse countries around the world. The chapters examine from different perspectives (for instance, migration and minority languages, indigenous languages, and content and language integrated learning [CLIL] instruction) the measures adopted in these settings to foster (modern) language learning, underlining their strengths and weaknesses and suggesting future avenues and courses of action to enhance plurilingual education in these particular contexts and beyond.

This book deepens the insight into the setting and monitoring of language norms in different contexts. One focus lies on institutional contexts, in which the authors examine standardization, language policy and the implementation of usage norms. In the context of language learning, the authors investigate cognitive strategies of L2 norm construction by initial learners, L2 norms in grammars as well as interactional norms regulating teacher behavior. Finally, the volume theoretically explores the nature of discourse norms and examines their management and metadiscursive formulation in a variety of communicative activities and genres. Contributions to the volume are predominantly in English, some in German.

Die Beiträge behandeln Aspekte sprachlicher Minderheiten im deutsch- und romanischsprachigen Raum, insbesondere in Italien. Im Mittelpunkt stehen sprachhistorische, sprachstrukturelle und sprachpolitische Fragen, auch im Hinblick auf die lebensweltliche Relevanz klein(er)er Sprachen. Nei saggi qui raccolti sono trattati temi relativi a minoranze linguistiche dell'area tedesca e romanza, soprattutto italiana. I lavori si occupano, in particolare, di aspetti concernenti la storia linguistica, le strutture linguistiche e la politica linguistica, dando voce, per altro, a rappresentanti delle stesse comunità di minoranza.

In a knowledge-based society education and technologies appear as the decisive driving-forces of the development, and one of the most important challenges is the adaptation process of education adequately to the present societal and cultural changes. The following considerations extrapolate a multidisciplinary approach to the present conditions and circumstances of education, and are especially focusing on concerns such as the significance of technological development and the moral agency of technologies in the field of education, the questions concerning methods of languages and competences acquisition basing on the CLIL and e-learning methods, and finally the characteristic of engineers'education orientated on the interdisciplinary concept of the converging technologies.

Sprachenpolitik und Rechtssprache sind die zwei Schwerpunkte dieses Bandes. Die Beiträge zur Sprachenpolitik diskutieren die Vorrangstellung des Englischen in der internationalen Kommunikation und gehen auf wichtige Fragen ein (u. a.: Wie kann Mehrsprachigkeit erhalten/gefördert werden? Tragen Bildungspolitiker der EU-Strategie zur Förderung der Mehrsprachigkeit auf nationaler Ebene Rechnung?). Rechtssprache bildet den Kern der Verwaltungssprache. Behördliche Schreiben (Texte, Vorschriften etc.) müssen Sachverhalt und rechtliche Situation richtig wiedergeben, verständlich formuliert und übersichtlich sein. Wegen der Bedeutung einer bürgernahen Sprache in der und für die Öffentlichkeit werden im Band verschiedene Fragestellungen auf der Folie einer kritisch-analytischen Betrachtung reflektiert.

An Fallstudien sprachlichen Transfers ins Finnische, Lettische, Litauische und Isländische werden Aspekte sprachlicher Normierungstätigkeiten aufgezeigt. Die aus einer soziolinguistischen Konferenz zu dem Thema ausgewählten Beiträge haben nicht die Übersetzungswissenschaften zum Thema, sondern die Frage, wie kleinere Sprachkulturen die Herausforderungen der sprachlichen Identitätswahrung meistern, wenn ihre Sprachgemeinschaften im Gefolge der europäischen Mobilität immer heterogener werden. Different aspects of linguistic standardization are pointed out on the basis of case studies of linguistic transfers into Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Icelandic. The sociolinguistic contributions selected from a conference do not merely deal with translation studies but with the question how smaller linguistic communities overcome the challenges of safeguarding their linguistic identity while becoming heterogeneous in the wake of European mobility.