Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics: Pedagogical Perspectives

Jeroen Darquennes is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research and a member of the Research Centre on Multilingualism of the Catholic University of Brussel. His main research interests lie in the domain of sociolinguistics and contact linguistics. His work (for example on the status of German in Belgium) has appeared in several collective volumes (published, for example, by Peter Lang) and in journals such as Annual Review of Applied Linguistics.

Rita Temmerman teaches translation studies and terminology theory at the Erasmus University College Brussels, where she co-ordinates the Centrum voor Vaktaal en Communicatie, a research centre in applied sociocognitive terminology.

Her wider research interests include translation, terminology, knowledge management,

multilingualism and cross-cultural communication. She has published a monograph with John Benjamins and multiple articles in collective volumes and journals such as Terminology.