Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe The German Langua

Central Europe has always been a highly multilingual region but how has this been affected by the social and political transformations of the last 20 years? The German language in particular has long played a key role in processes of identification here:

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

Jenny Carl and Patrick Stevenson University of Southampton

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Contents

List of Tables

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List of Figures

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Acknowledgements

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Notes on the Contributors

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1 Introduction: Central Europe as a Multilingual Space Patrick Stevenson and Jenny Carl

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Part I Language and European Identities: Centre and Periphery 2 Discourses about Enlarged and Multilingual Europe: Perspectives from German and Polish National Public Sph