Transkulturelle Perspektiven auf mehrsprachige Regionen

Multilingualism in Morocco is characterised above all by the coexistence of Classical Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, various Berber dialects and the former colonial languages French and Spanish. In northern Germany the standard High German language stands alongside the minority languages Danish, Frisian and Romani, as well as the regional Low German language and various migrant languages. It is advisable (especially in the context of didactic challenges) to take a distinguishing look at different kinds of experienced and/or desired multilingualism. This is the background to the regular dialogue between Germanists in Fez and Flensburg. This volume contains the proceedings of the 2014 conference. They start with approaches from cultural theory and sociology and range through historical description to studies of empirical linguistics and the didactics of multilingualism. In today’s world neither the global abolition of multilingualism nor its simple retention are called for; rather, the authors argue for multilingualism to be raised to an appropriate transcultural level.