Multilingualism and Politics Revisiting Multilingual Citizenship
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Edited by Katerina Strani
Multilingualism and Politics
Katerina Strani Editor
Multilingualism and Politics Revisiting Multilingual Citizenship
Editor Katerina Strani Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK
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Acknowledgements
First and foremost, I would like to thank the contributors of this volume for their meticulous work, for their collaboration and patience in this endeavour. There would have been no book without your excellent contributions. I hope we can work together again soon. I would also like to thank Cathy Scott and Alice Green at Palgrave for their useful guidance, for their patience and professionalism. Special thanks to the anonymous reviewers of the book proposal and the manuscript for the fair, constructive and useful feedback. Some of the ideas in this volume were presented at the ESTIDIA conference organized by Cornelia Ilie in 2014, where Jef Verschueren kindly gave me some guidance on how to take these forward. I would like to thank them both for their constructive and encouraging comments. Heartfelt thanks to the Scottish Division of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, the Edinburgh University TESOL and Applied Linguistics Research Group, and the Edinburgh Active Citizenship Group for inviting me to share some ideas on multilingual democracies with their respective audiences. I am also grateful to the following people: All my colleagues
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