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Superdiversity, Multilingualism, and Awareness

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Paradoxically, individual and societal multilingualism are officially accepted and celebrated at a European level, the aim being that every European citizen becomes at least trilingual. Closer analyses of the discourse on multilingualism shows, however, that what are celebrated are the languages of European nation-states and officially acknowledged linguistic minorities (such as Frisian in the Netherlands, Welsh or Gaelic in the United Kingdom, Sorbian in Germany) but by no means all languages of the people who actually live in European countries. Embedded in this paradox, the present chapter will first provide an overview on the historical development of the term and concept of “superdiversity.” In the second part, we present current research on linguistic superdiversity and awareness from sociological/anthropological, sociolinguistic, education, and psycholinguistic perspectives. Methodological aspects and challenges will then be identified, followed by an outline of future directions in the field.

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    A research project investigating this type of questions started in 2015 in Germany, see www.mez.uni-hamburg.de (July 2015).

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  1. Institute for Intercultural and International Comparative Education, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 8, 20146, Hamburg, Germany

    Ingrid Gogolin

  2. University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts, Frisian Language and Literature – Research Centre Arts in Society, Oude Kijk in ’t Jatstraat 26, 9712, EK, Groningen, The Netherlands

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  3. Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Stephen May

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Gogolin, I., Duarte, J. (2017). Superdiversity, Multilingualism, and Awareness. In: Cenoz, J., Gorter, D., May, S. (eds) Language Awareness and Multilingualism. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02240-6_24

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