Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe

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

Part I. Language and European Identities: Centre and Periphery

2. Discourses about Enlarged and Multilingual Europe: Perspectives from German and Polish National Public Spheres
Michat Krzyżanowski

Part II. Border Crossings

3. The German Language in Poland: the Eternal Foe and the Wars on Words
Sylvia Jaworska

4. ‘Die härteste Sprachgrenze Europas?’ Negotiating the Linguistic Divide in Theatres on the German-Polish Border
Jane Wilkinson

5. Czech-German Relationships and Identity in a Cross-border Region
Kateřina Černá

6. Czech, German and English: Finding Their Place in Multinational Companies in the Czech Republic
Jin Nekvapil, Tamah Sherman

Part III. Migrations Past and Present

7. Changes in the Linguistic Marketplace: The Case of German in Hungary
Péter Maitz, Klára Sándor

8. Central European Time: Memories of Language — Lost and Found — in the Life Stories of German-speakers
Jenny Carl, Patrick Stevenson

9. Dialect Use and Discursive Identities of Migrants from the West in Eastern Germany
Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain, Grit Liebscher

10. ¿Hablemos el mismo idioma? Salsa, Multilingualism and National Monolingual Ideology
Britta Schneider

11. Towards a Multinational Concept of Culture: Romanian German Literature in Romanian and Hungarian Literature
Thomas Cooper

Part IV. Language and European Identities: Periphery and Centre

12. Revisiting History: The 2007 European Capital of Culture and the Integration of Fractal Europe
Kristine Horner

Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology, general, Applied Linguistics, History of Germany and Central Europe, Language and Literature