The contributors to Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world. They explore in detail the specific ways in which language ideologies underpin language policy and the relationship between public policies and individual practices. Particular attention is given to Europe, where the impetus to social transformation within and across national boundaries is in renewed tension with conflicting national and supra-national interests, with these tensions reflected in the complex issues of language choice and language policy.

LUKAS BLEICHENBACHER is Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Teacher Education Thurgau (PHTG) and University of Zurich, Switzerland
JAN BLOMMAERT is Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
GERRIT BRAND is Book Editor of the daily newspaper Die Burger in Capetown, South Africa
CHRISTOPHER BRUMFIT (d. 2006) former Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southampton, UK
BRIGITTA BUSCH Senior Research Fellow, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria
ANNA DUSZAK Head of the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University, Poland where she is Professor of Linguistics, as well as Professor in the Warsaw School of Applied Psychology
SUSAN GAL Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor in Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago, USA
ROBERT GOULD is Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, and in the Institute of European and Russian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
KATRIJN MARYNS teaches at the Universities of Ghent and Lessius (KUL)
TOMMASO M. MILANI is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded 'BBC Voices' project, University of Leeds, UK
THOMAS RICENTO is Professor and Chair, English as an Additional Language, University of Calgary, Canada
REMY ROUILLARD is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada
MASSIMILIANO SPOTTI is a postdoctoral fellow, Department of Language and Culture Studies as well as a member of Babylon, Centre for the Studies of the Multicultural Society, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
CHRISTIAN VOSS is Professor of South Slavic Linguistic and Cultural Studies at Humboldt-University, Berlin

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors On Language, The National and the Transnational in Contemporary Europe; P.Stevenson & C.Mar-Molinero PART 1: THE EUROPEAN LEGACY: THEORETICAL ISSUES Migration, Minorities and Multilingualism in Europe: Language Ideologies and the Practices of Language Difference; S.Gal A European Perspective on Language as Liminality; C.Brumfit Americanization, Language Ideologies and the Construction of European Identities; T.Ricento The Role of 'Europe' in the South African Language Debate; G.Brand The European Linguistic Legacy in a Global Era: Linguistic Imperialism, Spanish and the Instituto Cervantes ; C.Mar-Molinero PART 2: NEW FORMATIONS IN EUROPE: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CHANGE Why 'New' Newspeak ? Axiological Insights into Language Ideologies and Practices in Poland; A.Duszak Language Planning and National Identity in Sweden: A Performativity Approach; T.M.Milani The Macedonian Standard Language: Tito-Yugoslav Experiment or Symbol for 'Great Macedonian' Ethnic Inclusion?; C.Voss Language Loyalty in the Baltic: Russian Artists and Linguistic Nationalism in Estonia; R.Rouillard 'National' Languages in Transnational Contexts: Language, Migration and Citizenship in Germany and Austria; P.Stevenson The European Paradox: Swiss Discourses of Identity Between Dependence and Xenophobia; R.Gould Conducting Dissonance: Codeswitching and Differential Access to Context in the Belgian Asylum Process; K.Maryns & J.Blommaert Multilingual Migrants and Monolingual Teachers: The Discursive Construction of Identity in a Flanders Primary School; M.Spotti Changing Media Spaces: The Transformative Power of Heteroglossic Practices; B.Busch Dobry den Košice - üdvözlöm Kassát - Hello Kosice: Language Choice in a Slovak Internet Guestbook; L.Bleichenbacher References Index