Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Notes on the contributors -- Introduction: The multilingual challenge -- Part I: Familial challenges -- 1. Challenges of multilingualism to the family -- 2. The promotion of multilingualism in a Catalan-speaking area. Familial challenges in the Valencian Community -- Part II: Educational challenges -- 3. Conflict in the second language classroom: a teacher of Spanish facing the complicated dimensions of multilingualism -- 4. The legitimacy gap: multilingual language teachers in an era of globalization -- 5. « Le multilinguisme en question ? » - The case of minority language education in Brittany (France) -- Part III: Institutional challenges -- 6. Challenges to monolingual national literatures -- 7. Multilingual and intercultural competence on the threshold of the Third Reich -- 8. Linguistic Unheimlichkeit: the Armenian and Arab communities of Cyprus -- Part IV: Scientific challenges -- 9. Monolingualism and multilingualism in the construction and dissemination of scientific knowledge -- 10. Le Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme : une recherche internationale, face aux défis d'une conception plurilingue et d'une traduction en anglais et en chinois -- 11. Understanding current multilingualism: what can the butterfly tell us? -- Part V: Professional and geopolitical challenges -- 12. Language policy and planning in international organisations -- 13. Challenges within the ecology of multilingual interactions in Aboriginal cultural tourism in Central Australia -- Afterword: Challenging multilingualism -- Index