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New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe - Opportunities and Challenges

Researchers (1)
no. Code Name and surname Research area Role Period No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  27674  PhD Špela Arhar Holdt  Linguistics  Head  2013 - 2017  236 
Organisations (1)
no. Code Research organisation City Registration number No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  0581  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts  Ljubljana  1627058  97,831 
Abstract
Globalization, increased mobility and transnational networking transform the linguistic ecologies of contemporary societies. In this Action, the aim is to bring multilinguals into the focus of these processes by investigating the challenges and opportunities involved in acquiring, using and being understood as a new speaker of a language in the context of a multilingual Europe. New speakers, from this perspective, are all multilingual citizens who, by engaging with languages other than their “native” or “national” language(s), need to cross existing social boundaries, re-evaluate their own levels of linguistic competence and creatively (re)structure their social practices to adapt to new and overlapping linguistic spaces.
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