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Journal Article
PLURILINGUAL EUROPEANS IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE: INCOMPLETE AND IMPERFECT COMMUNICATION TACTICS INTRODUCTION TO PART II
2012
Overview
On the ground, the dream of a constellation of equal languages, all perfecdy translated and made readily accessible to their target audience turns into a messy but productive constellation that is made up of overlaps, discrepancies and incomplete forms of multilingualism that produce shifting power relationships between Europeans. Most Europeans will never master more than a few languages at a given time and no European is as multilingual as the European Union.3 The multiplicity of languages within the European Union does not call for the same type of thinking (how does a political entity function with 22 official languages?) as the issues raised by travellers (do business travellers alter the nature of the English language when they all speak it as non-natives), migrants or refugees (when does a language count as a language and who has the power to remain ignorant?), border-crossers or border-dwellers (what does it mean to be trilingual in a small territory?) or the children raised in a bi-lingual or tri-lingual environment (does the 'authenticity' of the language of origin trump social mobility when parents choose to transmit or not their own mother tongue?).
