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In:The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance
Edited by Peter A. Kraus and François Grin
[Studies in World Language Problems 6] 2018
► pp. 1–16

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Chapter 1
The politics of multilingualism

General introduction and overview

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 | University of Augsburg
Published online: 10 September 2018
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Article outline
  • 1.Diversity and multilingualism: A first approximation
  • 2.The politics of multilingualism: Dealing with an object in constant flux
  • 3.The contributions in this book
  • Notes
  • References
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