This article introduces the present forum edition on linguistic identities in twenty-first-century Europe. We consider how discourses of inclusion and exclusion, embedded in discourses of the nation, continue to be relevant in understanding and interpreting the social, cultural and political status of (minority) languages and their speakers. In order to introduce the various studies that comprise this forum, we relay how language debates provide a lens through which wider systems of prestige and hierarchy may be focused. Such debates can, at one and the same time, both alter and reflect the meanings and interpretations of Europe itself.

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变化中的语言和大陆

本文介绍了目前关于 21 世纪欧洲语言身份的论坛版本。我们考虑嵌入在民族话语中的包容和排斥话语如何继续与理解和解释（少数）语言及其使用者的社会、文化和政治地位相关。为了介绍构成本论坛的各种研究，我们转述语言辩论如何提供一个镜头，通过该镜头可以关注更广泛的声望和等级制度。这样的辩论可以同时改变和反映欧洲本身的意义和解释。