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Wojtynska, Anna; Hoffmann, Lara; Sigmarsdóttir, Dögg; Marcinek, Ewa – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
The article discusses an artistic event "Emotions Icelandic Awakes" organized by the Reykjavik City Library as part of the national celebrations for Icelandic Language Day. It examines the potential of affording genuine attention to language as a matter of emotional inquiry for the process of intercultural exchange. We reflect on the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages
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Martin-Rubió, Xavier; Cots, Josep Maria – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
This study starts from the premise that academic mobility contributes to the development of students' plurilingual identities and that study abroad contexts aiming at becoming global spaces are particularly interesting sites to explore the individuals' discursive work to (re-)construct their plurilingual identities by reconciling their language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Student Mobility, Multilingualism, Self Concept
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Tsuda, Sanae; Lafaye, Beverley Elsom – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2005
Language contact is traditionally associated with language communities having a long and close association with a second language--through an existing official language, or extensive use of the language spoken by past colonial rulers, or both. Japan neither falls directly into these categories, nor is it considered a country with a strong…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Official Languages, Multilingualism, Language Role
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Glaser, Evelyne – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2005
While plurilingualism is not necessarily a novel concept, the author argues that the ability to speak several languages will help Europeans to develop a European identity and to deconstruct existing cultural and even genetic barriers. To this aim it would make sense to be introduced at a very early age to elements of language and culture from…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Immigrants