Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism)

341 Pages·2007·3.11 MB·English

by  Jan D. ten Thije

Receptive Multilingualism
Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism (HSM)
Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism (HSM) publishes research from
colloquia on linguistic aspects of multilingualism organized by the Research
Center on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg.
Editors
Jürgen M. Meisel
Monika Rothweiler
Juliane House
University of Hamburg
Research Center on Mulitlingualism
Volume 6
Receptive Multilingualism. Linguistic analyses, language policies
and didactic concepts
Edited by Jan D. ten Thije and Ludger Zeevaert
Receptive Multilingualism
Linguistic analyses, language policies
and didactic concepts
Edited by
Jan D. ten Thije
Utrecht University
Ludger Zeevaert
University of Hamburg
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Receptive multilingualism : linguistic analyses, language policies, and didactic concepts /
edited by Jan D. ten Thije & Ludger Zeevaert.
p. cm. -- (Hamburg studies on multilingualism, issn 1571-4934 ; v. 6)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Multilingualism. 2. Communication. I. Thije, Jan D. ten. II. Zeevaert, Ludger.
P115.R427 2007
306.44'6--dc22 2007009072
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Contents
About the authors ix
Introduction 1
Ludger Zeevaert and Jan D. ten Thije
Part 1 Historical development of receptive multilingualism
1. Receptive multilingualism in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages:
A description of a scenario 25
Kurt Braunmüller
2. Linguisticdiversity in Habsburg Austria as a model for
modern European language policy 49
Rosita Rindler-Schjerve and Eva Vetter
Part 2 Receptive multilingualism in discourse
3. Receptive multilingualism in Dutch–German intercultural team cooperation 73
Anne Ribbert and Jan D. ten Thije
4. Receptive multilingualism and inter-Scandinavian semicommunication 103
Ludger Zeevaert
5. Receptive multilingualism in Switzerland and the case of Biel/Bienne 137
Iwar Werlen
6. The Swiss model of plurilingual communication 159
Georges Lüdi
7. Receptive multilingualism in business discourses 179
Bettina Dresemann
8. Speaker stances in native and non-native English conversation:
I + verb constructions 195
Nicole Baumgarten and Juliane House
viii Receptive Multilingualism
Part 3 Testing mutual understanding in receptive multilingual communication
9. Understanding differences in inter-­Scandinavian language understanding 217
Gerke Doetjes
10. Scandinavian intercomprehension today 231
Lars-Olof Delsing
Part 4 Determiningt he possibilities of reading comprehension
in related languages
11. Interlingual text comprehension: Linguistic and extralinguistic
determinants 249
Renée van Bezooijen and Charlotte Gooskens
12. Processing levels in foreign-­language reading 265
Madeline Lutjeharms
13. A computer-­based exploration of the lexical possibilities
of intercomprehension: Finding German cognates of Dutch words 285
Robert Möller
14. How can DaFnE and EuroComGerm contribute to the concept of receptive
multilingualism? Theoretical and practical considerations 307
Britta Hufeisen and Nicole Marx
Name index 323
Subject index 326
About the authors
Kurt Braunmüller Anne Ribbert
Universität Hamburg Dept. of English
Institut für Germanistik I–Skandinavistik Radboud University Nijmegen
Von Melle Park 6 P.O. Box 9103
D-20146 Hamburg NL-6500 HD Nijmegen
Germany The Netherlands
[email protected] [email protected]
Rosita Schjerve-Rindler Jan D. ten Thije
Universitätscampus AAKH Department of Dutch Language and Culture
Garnisongasse 13, Hof 8 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (UIL-OTS)
A-1090 Wien Trans 10
Austria NL 3512 JK Utrecht
[email protected] The Netherlands
[email protected]
Eva Vetter
Universitätscampus AAKH Ludger Zeevaert
Garnisongasse 13, Hof 8 Universität Hamburg
A-1090 Wien SFB 538 Mehrsprachigkeit — Teilprojekt H3
Austria Max-Brauer-Allee 60
[email protected] DE-22765 Hamburg
Germany
Renée van Bezooijen [email protected]
Dept. of Linguistics,
Radboud University Nijmegen Iwar Werlen
P.O. Box 9103 Universität Bern
NL-6500 HD Nijmegen Institut für Sprachwissenschaft
The Netherlands Länggassstrasse 49
[email protected] CH-3000 Bern 9
Switzerland
Charlotte Gooskens [email protected]
Dept. of Scandinavian Studies
University of Groningen Georges Lüdi
P.O. Box 716 Universität Basel
NL-9700 AS Groningen Institut für Französische Sprach- und
[email protected]. Literaturwissenschaft
The Netherlands Stapfelberg 7/9
CH-4051 Basel
Switzerland
[email protected]