The concept of multilingualism has produced a large body of scholarly literature across the
humanities and social sciences in recent years. By opening up the dialogues between various
disciplinary and national perspectives this volume aims to develop multilingualism as a
travelling concept for the study of culture in the sense elucidated by Mieke Bal. The
contributions in this volume examine multilingualism from a variety of theoretical and
methodological perspectives. The volume investigates multilingualism in three main ways: first
as a socio-political condition and the point of conflict between different political forces
especially in the context of post-Soviet multi-ethnic societies in transition second as a
method employed in multilingual classroom settings and third in multilingual literary works.
The multilingual texts analysed in these contexts address various challenges of inhabiting
'in-between spaces'. At the same time they provide frameworks for addressing these challenges
by showing how multilingual speakers and texts re-signify the beliefs ideologies and
histories which shape the conditions of multilingual societies and the experiences of
individuals. By exploring multilingualism through a variety of methods and approaches the
articles in this volume themselves comprise a multilingual project which encompasses a wide
range of languages disciplines and texts from around the globe. TABLE OF CONTENTS TOM CLUCAS
KSENIA MAKSIMOVTSOVA AND NEVENA STAMENKOVIC Introduction
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1 I. SOCIETAL RESPONSES: LANGUAGE POLICIES AND IDEOLOGIES IN MULTILINGUAL SOCIETIES THOMAS
DAIBER Emotional Multilingualism
.......................................................................................... 17
EKATERINA PANKOVA Language and Ideology: Analysis of the Debate on the Foundations of the State
Cultural Policy in Today's Russia ............................................................
23 KSENIA MAKSIMOVTSOVA Language Policy in Contemporary Estonia Latvia and Ukraine: Is There
a Room for the State Bi- Multilingualism? ....................................................
43 DAUREN BAKHYTZHANOVICH BORANBAYEV Multilingualism in Kazakhstan: Peculiarities of the
Functioning of the Kazakh and Russian Languages in Political Discourse
..................................... 59 CHRISTINA KORB Languages in School: On the Perception
and Manifestation of Pupils' Multilingualism
........................................................................................... 71
II. LITERARY RESPONSES: MULTILINGUALISM IDENTITY AND MIGRATION IN LITERARY FICTION TOM CLUCAS
Multilingual Tomb-stone: The Limits of Multilingualism in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
............................................................................... 89 ANA MARÍA
CALLEJAS TORO AND JULIANA GÓMEZ MEDINA Multilingualism in Colombian Caribbean Literature:
Symbolic Systems of Multilingual Lexical Choices in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years
of Solitude ......................................... 99 NEVENA STAMENKOVIC Approaches to
Multilingualism in Language Education: Teaching Multilingual Literature
............................................................................... 111 MIRUNA
BACALI Quo Vadis Romania? Constructing Europeanness in Post-1989 Romania from a Multilingual
and Translational Perspective .................................................... 125
