German in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in its multilingual contexts. The opening of the research center ""German in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe"" at the University of Regensburg - a meeting report

Abstract

The article reports about the launch conference of the research center ""German in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe"" at the University of Regensburg. Besides topics on language politics and multilingualism the articles also dealt with German from variety linguistic and lexicographical perspectives.

Keywords

• German
• multilingualism
• minority
• language policy
• lexicography
• variety linguistics