Issue no. 31 in the Thematicon : wissenschaftliche Reihe des Collegium Polonicum series.

Includes bibliographical references.

"For the last few decades, language contact and language policies have been the subject of numerous investigations which have presented research results from the perspectives of different disciplines. However, there are hardly any studies linking the influence of the interaction among speakers of different contact languages or the creation of language policy with border issues, especially with regard to the creation or deconstruction of transnational and transcultural spaces.

The book collects interdisciplinary studies in an attempt to build a bridge between linguistics, socio-cultural sciences and border studies in the broad sense. The authors contributing to this publication focus mainly on the linguistic, but also political and social phenomena resulting from making and crossing linguistic boundaries between different language communities. All the papers in this volume draw on the concept of creation and deconstruction of linguistic borders in different ways, and although the authors come from different disciplines within linguistics (or human sciences), they all focus on the question of the existence or absence of transnational and transcultural spaces caused by language contact and/or language policy making." (Publisher's description)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Language Contact and Language Policies Across Borders: An Introduction / Barbara Alicja Janczak

The Complex Integration Pathways of Recent Immigrants at the Intersections of Language and Immigration Policies in Canada's Transborder National Capital Region / Monika Jezak and Luisa Veronis

Same Language, Different Borders, Different Policies: Kurdish in Four Countries / Jaffer Sheyholislami

Languages and Language Policies in Saarland and Lorraine: Towards the Creation of a Transnational Space? / Claudia Polzin-Haumann and Christina Reissner

A Dialectological Perspective on Political and Linguistic Boundaries / Tom F.H. Smits

Alternative Interlingual Strategies for Crossing Linguistic Borders: Theoretical Possibilities and their Realization at the German-Polish Border / Goro Christoph Kimura

Borderlands as Spaces of Transition. The Communication of Polish Vendors in the German-Polish Border Region by the Example of Forms of Address / Barbara Alicja Jańczak

Language Biographies of Bilingual Persons from the Polish-German Borderland / Anna Zielińska

Transcultural Exchange in German as a Gathering Language in the Context of Bilingual Education / Robson Carapeto-Conceição

Contributors