(Mehr-)Sprachigkeit und Lingualismus

Multilingualism has become one of the pivotal catchwords in a discourse which for several years has been spreading not only in the field of academics, but also in the public and private sphere, especially at the supranational European level. While the EU's language political communication efforts are aimed at the national level, the member states often seem to follow language political principles that differ significantly from those of the EU. With this perspective in mind and focussing on an Austrian case study, the present book investigates how and to what degree the EU's discursively conducted multilingualism policy is perceived at the Austrian national level. Furthermore, it pursues the questions of how language (in the sense of Sprachigkeit or languageness von Dorostkar, Niku