Multilingual City

Lid King was Director of CILT and then between 2003 and 2011 was National Director for Languages taking forward the implementation of the National Languages Strategy for England. He was co-author – with Lord Ron Dearing – of The Languages Review, and has represented the UK on languages at both the European Union and the Council of Europe. He established the Languages Company in 2008, originally in order to support the national policy on languages and also to promote languages pedagogy and policy issues.Lorna Carson is Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Her teaching and research focuses on multilingualism with a particular emphasis on understanding the language classroom. She is President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL).

• ContributorsPreface1. Lorna Carson and Lid King: Introduction: ‘Multilingualism is Lived Here’2. Itesh Sachdev and Sarah Cartwright: The Vitality of Urban Multilingualism3. Lorna Carson: The Sights and Sounds of the Multilingual City4. Maria Stoicheva: Urban Multilingualism: Bond or Barrier?5. Peter Skrandies: Language Policies and the Politics of Urban Multilingualism6. David Little: Languages at School: A Challenge for Multilingual Cities7. Lid King: Multilingual Cities and the Future — Vitality or Decline?List of References           Index

This important new volume reports research on Europe’s irretrievably multilingual cities and states where the challenges and rewards of multilingualism are sharply defined. Municipal authorities and national governments need to pay much more attention to the city as a site of language planning, of possible new conceptions of citizenship, and sites where much of the future of human relations will be negotiated.