Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Multilingualism in a standard language culture (by Vogl, Ulrike); 3. I. Theoretical considerations and historical background; 4. Myths we live and speak by: Ways of imagining and managing language and languages (by Davies, Winifred V.); 5. Marching forward into the past: Monolingual multilingualism in contemporary political theory (by Peled, Yael); 6. Language and ethnicity in a European context (by Haarmann, Harald); 7. II. Case-studies: The changing relationship between standard languages and other varieties; 8. Multilingual speakers in a monolingual society: From the history and present state of language planning in Iceland (by Haselow, Alexander); 9. Multilingualism and standardization in Greece (by Mackridge, Peter); 10. The development of Finnish into a national language (by Saari, Mirja); 11. Traces of monolingual and plurilingual ideologies in the history of language policies in France (by Ludi, Georges); 12. Centripetal and centrifugal forces in the sociolinguistic configuration of the Iberian Peninsula (by Anipa, Kormi); 13. Dutch in Belgium: Facing multilingualism in a context of regional monolingualism and Standard Language Ideology (by De Caluwe, Johan); 14. The Caucasus: Scenarios of ethnic conflict and trajectories of standardization (by Haarmann, Harald); 15. Multilingualism and the disputed standardizations of Macedonian and Moldovan (by Ciscel, Matthew H.); 16. Index; 17. Name index; 18. Language index; 19. Index of geographical names; 20. Subject index