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Pearson-Evans and Leahy (both intercultural studies, Dublin City U.) present a selection of 24 peer-reviewed essays drawn from the "Intercultural Spaces: Language, Culture, Identity" conference hosted by Dublin City U. in November 2003 and bringing together some 150 international academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines. The papers examine ways that language, culture, and identity are expressed and transformed by intercultural contact, and explore the challenges, opportunities, conflicts and insights that can arise from such encounters. A sampling of topics: the concept of culture in la Francophonie--myth and reality, the intercultural dimension of foreign language learning and teaching, the encounter between Christendom and Islam in Wolfram's Willehalm, language and collective identity in Sweden, retaining ethnicity between nationalism and regionalism in 20th-century South Tyrol, post-Soviet community building in the Baltic States, and cross-cultural adaptation by members of the Vietnamese community in Ireland. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
