This book offers an inclusive perspective on the constellation of languages in Europe by taking into account official state languages, regional minority languages and immigrant minority languages as constituent parts of Europe's identity. Both facts and policies on multilingualism and plurilingual education are addressed in case studies at the national and European level. The themes of the book are addressed from phenomenological, demographic, sociolinguistic and educational points of view....

This comprehensive book offers insightful crossnational and crosscontinental perspectives on mapping linguistic diversity in a variety of multicultural contexts, both in Europe and abroad, and in both the private and public domain, particularly in terms of spoken languages at home and visual languages on the street. Methodological issues and empirical outcomes are explored for a variety of European and non-European countries and languages....