To balance the research showing the benefits of being multilingual, linguists and language teachers here look also at the difficulties faced by bilingual and multilingual individuals as they manage the linguistic multiplicity of everyday life. They cover familial, educational, institutional, scientific, and professional and geopolitical challenges. Among the topics are promoting multilingualism in a Catalan-speaking area, the case of minority language education in Brittany, multilingual and intercultural competence on the threshold of the Third Reich, what the butterfly can teach about understanding current multilingualism, and challenges within the ecology of multilingual interactions in Aboriginal cultural tourism in central Australia. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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.
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