Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- Transcription Conventions -- Map of Central Europe -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Discourses on Language in Social Life: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations -- 3 Sociolinguistic Histories and the Footprint of German in Eastern Central Europe -- 4 Language Policy Discourses: Interventions and Intersections -- 5 Language (Auto)biographies: Narrating Multilingual Selves -- 6 Language Ideologies: Negotiating Linguistic Identities -- 7 Conclusions -- Appendices -- Appendix A: European Institutions and Documents Concerning Language Policy -- Appendix B: Preamble to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages -- Appendix C: Introduction to the 2005 Commission Communication 'A New Framework Strategy for Multilingualism' -- Appendix D: Introduction to the 2008 Commission Communication 'Multilingualism: an asset for Europe and a shared commitment' -- Appendix E: German and Austrian agents and institutions in foreign cultural policy -- Appendix F: Extract from 'Auswärtige Kulturpolitik - Konzeption 2000' -- Appendix G: Central focus - 'Leitbild' - of the Goethe- Institut -- Appendix H: Austria's Auslandskulturkonzept NEU -- Appendix I: Plattform Kultur Mitteleuropa - Platform Culture Central Europe -- Appendix J: Extract from Austria kulturint - Tätigkeitsbericht 2002 -- Appendix K: Czech 2001 White Paper on Education -- Appendix L: Czech 2004 Education Act -- Appendix M: Extract from Czech Follow- up of Action Plan on Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity -- Appendix N: Hungarian 1997 Directive Concerning the Education for National and Ethnic Minorities -- Appendix O: Extract from 2007 Hungarian National Core Curriculum -- Appendix P: Extract from Hungarian Follow- up of Action Plan for Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity -- References -- Index